tianmu Mountain Ascended in a Dream
a seafaring visitor will talk about Japan, which waters and mists conceal beyond approach;
but Yueh people talk about Heavenly Mother Mountain, the clouds are fading or visible.
in a straight line to heaven, its summit enters heaven, tops the five Holy Peaks, and casts a shadow through China.
with the hundred-mile length of the Heavenly Terrace Range, which, just at this point, begins turning southeast.
my heart and my dreams are in Wu and Yueh, flying over the mirror lake and the moon overnight.
and the moon lights my shadow, and me to Yan River.
with the hermitage of Xie still there, and the monkeys calling clearly over ripples of green water.
I wear pegged boots which were first used by Xie, up a ladder of blue cloud.
sunny ocean half-way, holy cock-crow in space.
a thousand rocks turn a road, flowers lure me, rocks ease me. Day suddenly ends.
bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, startle the forest and make the heights tremble.
clouds darken with darkness of rain, streams pale with pallor of mist.
in the Gods of Thunder and Lightning, hills and mountains are crumbling.
the stone leaf in the cave opens in the middle.
an impenetrable shadow, but now the sun and moon illumine a gold and silver terrace.
and, clad in rainbow garments, riding on the wind, come the queens of all the clouds, descending one by one.
with tigers for their lute-players and phoenixes for dancers, row upon row, like fields of hemp, range the fairy figures.
I move, my soul goes flying, suddenly startled and long.
my pillow and my matting, are the lost clouds I was in.
and this is the way it always is with human joy, ten thousand things run for ever like water toward the east.
and so I take my leave of you, not knowing for how long? But let me, on my green slope, raise a white deer, and ride to you, great mountain, when I have need of you.
oh, how can I gravely bow and scrape to men of high rank and men of high office, who never will suffer being shown an honest-hearted face?
Translation
Listening to overseas visitors talk about Yingzhou, it is really hard to find it in a distant place with vast smoke waves.
When people from Vietnam talk about Tianmu Mountain, they can sometimes see it between clouds and shadows.
Tianmu Mountain towering into the sky, connected with the sky, horizontally out of the sky; The mountain is higher than the five mountains and covers Chicheng Mountain.
Tianmu Mountain is extremely high. Even the 48,-foot-high Tiantai Mountain seems to be leaning to the southeast and prostrating itself before it.
I want to sleepwalk to wuyue according to what Yue people said, and fly across Jinghu Lake under the bright moon one night.
The moonlight on Jinghu Lake shines on my figure and sends me all the way to Tongxi.
The place where Xie Lingyun lives is still there today. The clear lake is rippling and the apes are singing.
I wore Xie Gong's special wooden shoes on my feet and climbed the mountain road straight into the sky.
halfway up the mountain, I saw the sun rising from the sea, and the crow of the pheasant came from the air.
countless mountains and rocks overlap, and the mountain roads are tortuous and hovering. Strange flowers and grass, strange rocks, intoxicating. Suddenly, it was dusk.
The bear is roaring, the dragon is singing, and the spring in the rock is vibrating, which makes the deep forest tremble and the top of the layer shocked.
the clouds are dark, as if it is going to rain, and the water waves are turbulent, resulting in thin smoke.
lightning flashed and thunder roared, and the mountain seemed to be about to collapse.
the stone gate of the fairy mansion opened from the middle with a bang.
The blue sky in the cave is boundless, with no end in sight. The sun and the moon shine on the palace made of gold and silver.
Make clothes out of rainbows, ride the wind as horses, and the immortals in the clouds come down one after another.
The tiger is playing the harp and the phoenix is pulling the cart. The immortals lined up like dense hemp.
suddenly my soul stirred, I woke up suddenly, and I couldn't help sighing.
When I woke up, there was only the pillow beside me, and all the smoke and clouds I saw in my dream just now disappeared.
The joy in the world is also like a dreamland in a dream. Since ancient times, everything has gone forever like water flowing east.
Say goodbye to friends and go to Donglu. When will you come back? For the time being, herd the white deer among the green cliffs, and when you want to travel far away, ride it to visit famous mountains.
how can you bow and scrape to serve the powerful, so that you can't have a comfortable smile!