When people are idle, sweet-scented osmanthus falls,
The night is quiet and the mountains are empty.
The moon is full of surprises,
In the spring stream.
Brief Introduction of the Author of Bird Watching Creek
Wang Wei (70 1-76 1). Han nationality, a native of Zhou Qi in Taiyuan (now Qixian County, Shanxi Province) in the Tang Dynasty, posthumous title "Shi Fo", an outstanding poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Kaiyuan, one of the eight famous poets in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and was later an official to Shang Shu You Cheng. Wang Wei is well versed in Buddhism. Buddhism has a Vimalakīrti classic, which was told by Vimalakīrti to his disciples. Wang Wei admired it, so he called himself Wei, with the word "Momo". Wang Wei's poems, paintings and calligraphy are all famous and versatile. Music is also very proficient. Greatly influenced by Zen. His ancestral home was Qi (now Qixian County, Shanxi Province), then he moved to Yongji, Shanxi Province, and lived in Lantian in his later years. When he was a teenager, he was rich in literary talent and was good at drawing figures, bamboos and landscapes. 72 1 year (the ninth year of kaiyuan), the first scholar, great success. I joined the army in Jeju for some reason. After returning to Chang 'an, he was demoted to the right. Before the Anshi Rebellion, officials were tired of giving things. In 756 AD (Tianbao 15th year), he was captured by Anshi rebels and served as a fake official. After the recovery of the two capitals, they were demoted to Prince Zhongyun, and later officials went to Shang Shu You Cheng, so they were also called Wang Youcheng. There are about 400 poems by Wang Wei, and the most representative of his creative features are poems describing natural scenery such as mountains and rivers and rural areas and praising seclusion. He inherited and developed the tradition of writing landscape poems initiated by Xie Lingyun, and also absorbed the freshness and naturalness of Tao Yuanming's landscape pastoral poems, which made the achievements of landscape pastoral poems reach a peak. He also wrote some ambitious and passionate poems, such as Young Man's Travel, Old Man's Travel, and The Song of the Dragon's Head, all of which are magnificent and colorful, and their mood is sometimes impassioned and sometimes desolate, showing the heroism of serving the country and full of romanticism. Some of his quatrains are also concise and implicit, simple and lively, beautiful and moving. In particular, "Send Yuan to Twenty Shores Xi" was composed as the progressive music of the famous "Three Layers of Yangguan" at that time and became a masterpiece. His poems are as famous as Meng Haoran, also known as "Wang Meng", and they are both representatives of the pastoral poetry school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In his later years, he had no intention of official career, was passive, pursued seclusion and tranquility, and converted to Buddhism, so later people called him "Shi Fo". Wang Weiyou's Collection of Wang Youcheng has been handed down from generation to generation, and Zhao Diancheng's Notes on Wang Youcheng's Collection is the most detailed.
Brief introduction of bird watching creek
This poem is one of the representative works of Wang Wei's landscape poems. From the perspective of literary creation, the subtlety of this poem lies in the poetry set off by the contrast between "dynamic" and "static". The first sentence, "osmanthus flowers fall when people are idle, and the mountains are empty at night", describes the scenery with sound and skillfully uses synaesthesia to combine the dynamic scenes of "flowers fall" and "people are idle". Flowers bloom and fall, all belong to the sound of nature. Only when the heart is really free and the obsession with worldly distractions is put down can the personal spirit be promoted to the realm of "emptiness". At that time, the background was "late at night", and the poet obviously couldn't see the falling scenery of osmanthus, but because of the "quiet night" and the "meditation" of people watching the scenery, he still felt the process of blooming osmanthus falling from the branches, floating down and falling to the ground. While reading aloud, we seem to have entered the scenic spot of "Fragrant Forest and Flowers and Rain". The "Spring Mountain" here has left us a blank of imagination. Because it is a "spring mountain", we can imagine the noisy pictures during the day: beautiful spring, birds and flowers, laughter and laughter. At this time, the night is still, the tourists leave, the noise of the day disappears, and the mountains are idle. In fact, "emptiness" is also the poet's state of mind as a Zen monk. Only when his mood is free and easy can he capture scenes that others can't feel.