Appreciation of Ancient Poems of Yongshan Spring

This is a unique landscape poem. The first couplet adds a little vitality to the silent mountain. Connecting the preceding with the following, it depicts the common image of mountain springs. The neck couplet is about the cold reception of the mountain spring, and the tail couplet is named after the poem, which shows that the mountain spring is spotless and has its own integrity, although no one pays attention. The whole poem adopts anthropomorphic techniques and embodies feelings in the scenery, vividly showing readers the clear spring in the mountains.

Yongshanquan

Guangxi in early Tang dynasty

There is running water in the mountains.

The sky plays underground, and the rain is heard in the air.

Turn into a deep stream and divide into small pools.

No one has seen it. You'll know when you get old.

translate

There is a spring in the mountain. Ask someone the name of this spring, and no one knows.

The sky is reflected on the surface of the spring water, the color of the ground and the sky is the same, and the spring water flows down from the high cliff like rain.

The spring water flowed down from the mountain and filled the mountain stream, even the tributaries filled the small pond.

No one saw the silence and indifference of this spring, but in any case, this spring is still so clear year after year.

Brief introduction of the author

Chu Guangxi was a poet in Tang Dynasty, who was good at writing pastoral poems. In the 14th year of Kaiyuan, he was promoted to Jinshi, but his career was not smooth, and he finally lived in seclusion in Zhong Nanshan. Because you can come into contact with some rural realities when you live in seclusion, the poems you write have a strong flavor of life and give people a real feeling. Representative works include Tian Jia Yi Shi, Tian Jia Miscellaneous Works and Mu Tong Ci.