"Looking at the Dongting" is a poem written by Liu Yuxi, a litterateur in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake under the moonlight on an autumn night, expresses the poet's love and praise for the scenery of Dongting, and shows the poet's magnificent and extraordinary magnanimity and noble and unique sentiments.
Translation of "Looking at Dongting"
The water light of Dongting Lake blends with the autumn moon, and the water surface is calm like an unpolished bronze mirror.
Looking from afar, the Dongting Lake landscape is green, just like a silver plate holding green snails. Original poem "Looking at the Dongting"
The light of the lake and the moon are harmonious, and there is no windshield on the surface of the pool that has not been polished.
Looking at the Dongting mountains and waters in the distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate. Appreciation of "Looking at Dongting"
The poet describes the landscape of Dongting Lake with unique imagination and appropriate metaphors. The poet first described the water and mountains of Dongting Lake seen from a distance, then compared the water of Dongting Lake to a silver plate, and the Junshan Mountain in Dongting Lake to a small green snail. There is a small green snail placed on the silver-white plate. It looks small and exquisite, very delicate, and matches the color of the lake and mountains shrouded in the moonlight. It expresses the poet's love for nature and his broad and open mind. Introduction to Liu Yuxi
Mengde, a native of Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu), is a descendant of the Huns. A poet and philosopher in the mid-Tang Dynasty. His family is a scholarly family with Confucianism passed down from generation to generation. He advocated political innovation and was one of the central figures in the political innovation activities of Wang Shuwen School.
Liu Yuxi was influenced by both his ears and his eyes. In addition, he was talented, sensitive and eager to learn. He had learned from others since he was a child and had an extraordinary bearing. At the age of nineteen, he traveled to Chang'an to study and wrote to the court. At the age of twenty-one, he and Liu Zongyuan passed the Jinshi examination. In the same year, he passed the erudite macroci subject.
Later, he was politically unhappy and was demoted to Sima of Langzhou. He did not surrender, but created with a positive and optimistic spirit, actively learned from folk songs, and wrote poems imitating folk songs such as "Cai Ling Xing".