Yeshan temple
Author Li Bai? the Tang Dynasty
The tall buildings of the temple on the mountain are really high, like a hundred feet. People upstairs are like a hand that can pick off the stars in the sky.
Standing here, I dare not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in the sky.
Translation:
The high-rise building of the temple on the mountain is really high, it seems to be 100 feet. People upstairs seem to be able to pick off the stars in the sky with one hand. Standing here, I dare not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in the sky.
Extended data writing background:
The poem Sleeping in the Mountain Temple was once selected as a primary school Chinese textbook, which is generally considered to be the work of Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem depicts the towering buildings in the temple in an extremely exaggerated way, expressing the poet's amazement at the engineering art of ancient temples and his yearning and pursuit of immortal life. The language of the whole poem is simple and natural, the imagination is magnificent, and the exaggeration is clever and vivid, giving people rich associations and immersive feelings.
The language of this poem is natural and simple, but the image is realistic. There are no uncommon words in the whole poem, but the words are amazing, which can be called a peerless masterpiece. With the help of bold imagination, the poet exaggerates the extraordinary height of the mountain temple and vividly describes the towering mountain temple and the fear at night, thus presenting readers with an almost unimaginable magnificent building and giving people an immersive feeling.
Picking stars and shocking the world, these seemingly naive ideas are used by poets and used in poetry, which makes people feel interesting and return to nature.
Li Bai's poetic style is bold and vigorous, his imagination is extremely rich, his language is naturally euphemistic, his temperament is changeable and harmonious, and he is full of romanticism. With only a few strokes, this poem vividly shows people's joy, boldness, loveliness and frankness at heights.
Li Bai, whose word is too white, is a famous violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland.
The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.