Du Mu, the author of "Mountain Journey", was born in the Tang Dynasty.
Far up the Hanshan Mountain, the stone path is slanted, and there are people living in the white clouds.
I park my car and sit in the maple forest at night, the leaves are as red as the flowers in February due to frost.
Translation:
The rocky path is winding and sloping far up to the top of the mountain, where a few households are faintly visible where the white clouds grow. I stopped the carriage just because I loved the evening view of the maple forest. The frost-stained maple leaves were better than the bright February flowers.
Appreciation:
The poem uses the poet's emotional tendency and uses the maple forest as the main scene to draw a warm and gorgeous autumn color picture of the mountain forest. The stone path leading up to Qiu Mountain in the distance first gives readers a distant view.
The top of the mountain road is a place shrouded in white clouds. The road is made by people, so the white clouds are lingering but not ethereal. The cold mountains contain life, and the sentence "where the white clouds are born, there are people" becomes a natural thing. However, this is only building momentum for the next two sentences. Next, the poet clearly tells the reader that I am still parking in front of the mountain so late, just because the mountain in front of me is in full swing, better than the maple leaves of spring flowers.
"Baiyun was born in a family", writing about clouds and people. The poet looked up along this mountain road. Where the white clouds floated, there were several stone houses and stone walls made of mountain rocks. The "people" here correspond to the "stone path" in the previous sentence, and the "stone path" is the passage up and down the houses.
In this way, the two scenery are organically linked together. The white clouds seem to emerge from the mountains and float around. It not only shows the height of the mountains, but also shows that the pale whiteness of the clouds contrasts with the green mountains, creating a bright color. The poet uses the technique of crossing the clouds and breaking the mountains to block the readers' sight, but leaves room for imagination: above the white clouds, there must be another kind of scenery if there are mountains outside the clouds.
The poet is only making objective descriptions of these scenery. Although the word "cold" is used, it is only to tease out the word "late" and "frost" below, and does not express the poet's emotional tendency. After all, it is just preparing for the subsequent description - outlining the environment where Maple Forest is located. "Stop, sit, and love Maplewood at night" is different. The tendency is already very clear and strong. The mountain road, white clouds, and people did not move the poet's heart, but the evening view of the maple forest made him unable to suppress his surprise.
In order to stop and appreciate the scenery of the mountains and forests, I didn’t even bother to drive. The scenery written in the first two sentences is already very beautiful, but what the poet loves is the maple forest. Through the contrast between the front and back, the ground has been laid for the description of the maple forest, and the momentum is sufficient, so it is a matter of course, leading to the fourth sentence, which points out the reason for loving the maple forest.