original text
Niaomingjian
Wang Wei [Tang Dynasty]
People are idle, osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and empty.
When the moon comes out, the birds are startled, and the sound enters the spring stream.
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In the silent valley, only the sweet-scented osmanthus in spring is falling silently. In the silent night, Chunshan is empty.
The moon rises, and the moonlight shines on the earth, which alarms the birds living in the mountains and sings in the spring stream from time to time.
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Bird Watching Creek: Birds are singing in the mountain stream.
Leisure: refers to the absence of interference from personnel activities.
Leisure: quiet, leisurely, which means silence.
Osmanthus fragrans: Spring Osmanthus fragrans, now called mountain alum, also called mountain osmanthus.
Spring mountain: the mountain in spring. Also refers to Chunshan Middle School.
Empty: empty, empty. Empty. At this time, Shan Ye was described as silent, as if there was nothing.
Moonrise: The moon rises.
To disturb or disturb.
Mountain bird: a bird in the mountains.
Bell: It rings occasionally (sometimes).
Time: Sometimes, occasionally.
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There are different opinions about the osmanthus in this poem. One explanation is that there are different kinds of sweet-scented osmanthus, including spring flowers, autumn flowers and four-season flowers. Here is a kind of spring flowers. Another view is that literary and artistic creation does not have to copy life. It is said that Wang Wei's "Yuan An Lying in the Snow" has green plantains in the snow, and things that cannot appear at the same time in real life are allowed in literary and artistic creation. But this poem is one of the five miscellaneous topics of Huangfuyue Yunxi where Wang Wei's friends live. Each of the five poems describes a landscape, which is close to landscape sketch, but different from ordinary freehand brushwork. Therefore, it is appropriate to interpret it as the real spring laurel in the mountains at this time.
This poem depicts the tranquility and beauty of the spring night in the mountains, with the focus on the tranquility and beauty of the spring night in the mountains. The whole poem is aimed at writing quietly, but it is handled with moving scenery. This contrast is very obvious to the poet's Zen and interest.
"When people are idle, sweet-scented osmanthus falls, and the night is quiet and the mountains are empty." They write the scenery with sound and skillfully use synaesthesia techniques to combine the dynamic scene of "flowers falling" with "people being 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. And 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.
The last sentence, "Birds are startled when the moon is out, and birds are singing in the spring stream", is based on moving to write quietness, a "surprise" and a "singing", which seems to break the quietness of the night, but in fact, it sets off the quietness and leisure in the mountains with the description of sound: the moon emerges from the clouds, the quiet moonlight flows down, and several birds wake up from their sleep and whisper from time to time, echoing the thin sound of running water in the spring stream. Birds are surprised, of course, because they are used to the silence of the valley. It seems that even the moon rises with new excitement. But it is also conceivable that the bright moonlight makes the scene before and after the valley suddenly change. The so-called "moon stars are scarce, birds fly south" (Cao Cao's "Short Songs") readers can associate it. However, Wang Wei lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which was different from the chaos in Jian 'an period, and even birds and animals were nervous. The background of Wang Wei's Mountain Birds on the Moon is a stable, unified and prosperous society in the Tang Dynasty. Although the bird is surprised, it is by no means "three turns around the tree, no branches to follow." They don't fly away from the spring stream, or even take off at all, but occasionally make noises in the Woods. They are not so much "surprised" as feeling fresh about the moon coming out. Therefore, if we compare Cao Cao's "A Short Song", in Wang Wei's poems, we can not only see the beautiful environment of spring mountain dotted with bright moon, fallen flowers and birds, but also feel the peaceful and stable social atmosphere in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Wang Wei likes to create a peaceful artistic conception in his landscape poems, and so does this poem. But the poem is about flowers falling, the moon rising and birds singing. These moving scenery not only make the poem look full of vitality, but also show the tranquility of the spring through movement. On the contrary, dynamic scene can achieve static effect, because the two sides of contradiction are always interdependent. Under certain conditions, movement can occur or be noticed, which is based on silence. "Tonamiyama is more secluded" contains artistic dialectics.
Creation background
This poem should have been written during a trip to the south of the Yangtze River from 7 13 to 74 1 year (Tang Kaiyuan), which was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. This poem is the first of a series of poems entitled Five Topics of Huangfuyue Yunxi written by Wang Wei's good friend Huangfuyue, who lives in Yunxi Mountain Villa. It is the work of a poet who lives in Wuxi (Ruoshuixi) in the southeast of Shaoxing County.
Brief introduction of the author
Wang Wei (70 1 year -76 1 year, 699 -76 1 year), whose real name was Ji Jie, was named the magic pony. Han nationality, a native of Hedong, Zhou Pu (now Yuncheng, Shanxi) and Qixian, Shanxi, was a poet in the Tang Dynasty and was known as the "Shi Fo". Su Shi commented: "Poetry is full of paintings; Look at the picture, there are poems in the picture. " In the ninth year of Kaiyuan (72 1), he was a scholar and was appointed as Tai Lecheng. During the Tianbao period, he worshipped the official department as a doctor and a servant. In the first year of Tang Suzong's rule, he was appointed as a senior minister, known as "Wang Youcheng". Wang Wei is a representative of poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Today, there are more than 400 poems, including Acacia and Autumn Night in the Deep Mountains. Wang Wei is proficient in Buddhism and is greatly influenced by Zen. Buddhism has a Vimalakīrti Jing, which is the origin of Wang Wei's name and ci. Wang Wei's poems, paintings and calligraphy are all famous, versatile and proficient in music. Together with Meng Haoran, they are called "Wang Meng".