A thousand voices were quiet, but the bell rang.
Interpretation of poetry
Walking to this ancient temple in the morning, the rising sun shines on the towering jungle. A winding path leads to a secluded distance, where there is a meditation room covered with flowers and trees. The mountains are clear, the birds are singing happily, and the reflection in the deep pool makes people feel ethereal. All is silent, only the echo of the long sound is heard.
Chang Jian's Zen Realm after Broken Mountain Temple has a unique conception. It is written closely around the meditation room behind the broken mountain temple, depicting the unique quiet interest in this specific realm.
The first couplet is "In the pure morning, near the ancient temple, the early sunshine points to the treetops", which sets out to outline the environment around the meditation room in the morning. In the early morning, the red sun rising in Ran Ran sprinkled golden sunlight on the temples and trees in Yushan, making the temples more beautiful and bright, and the towering mountains more green and lush, which made people feel relaxed and happy. Here, a word "Ru" depicts the remote beauty of the ancient temple, and a word "Zhao" engraves the vitality of the rising sun to the extreme, revealing the poet's happy mood. The first couplet is the vision of the Zen Temple, which lays the foundation for the following close-up description.
The couplet "My road twists and turns through a sheltered valley, branches and flowers to a Buddhist retreat" points out the word "Houdian" in the title and describes the secluded and charming road leading to Houdian and its scenery. The monk's room is deeply hidden among flowers and trees, with a strong aroma. Song Ouyang Xiu once praised it with emotion: "I often like to recite Chang Jian's poem:' My road is tortuous, through a sheltered valley, branches and flowers, to a Buddhist retreat'. Therefore, imitating its language as a couplet is not available for a long time, but it is difficult for those who know how to create meaning to work. " The beauty of this couplet is not only reflected in the accurate and vivid description of the scenery, but also in the profound ideological connotation. Buddhism advocates the purity of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, and asceticism. However, the flowers and trees in Buddhist temples are lush and fragrant, which shows the monks' warm yearning and persistent pursuit of beauty in a subtle and tortuous way.
Appreciation of poetry and prose
Visiting the mountain temple in the morning, I saw quiet bamboo forests, clear pools, shining green hills, birds singing, and the sound of bells disappearing from time to time. Such a quiet environment makes the poet suddenly enlightened. Although the whole poem sings about Zen Temple, it actually expresses the feelings of mountains and rivers and seclusion.
Simple language and profound image; Conception works create meaning, beauty lies in words, and attract people to enter the scenic spot among the people.
First, reward:
In the morning, the poet strolled to the Broken Mountain Temple. At this time, the rising sun shone brightly on a towering old tree like an arrow. Singing softly along the winding and deep tree-lined path is really fast. Graceful bamboo, lush green, pleasing to the eye, lingering. Unconsciously, it has been transferred to Houchan Temple. The neat and elegant meditation room is bright and clean, simple and solemn, and has far-reaching Zen meaning. See here lush vegetation, complement each other, impressive; The fragrance is overflowing, refreshing and refreshing. Looking around, beautiful scenery, floating gas field, all things brilliant, feather birds singing freely; Standing on the clear water, the clear water trickles, showing that the world and its own figure are in the water, and Zhan Ran is ethereal and bright. Everything makes birds and people happy, as if all kinds of vulgar distractions in the world were washed away. Nature is so quiet, in a trance, only the sound of bells rings in the whole mountain temple, and the lingering sound is scattered thousands of miles, giving people an ethereal, quiet and refined realm.
This poem was written by Chang Jian, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This paper describes the unique quiet scenery of the Buddhist temple after the broken mountain temple and the poet's special feelings in this scenery. It seems to be a landscape travel book, but in fact it mainly shows a strong tendency of Zen seclusion. Poetry abandons the traditional line drawing technique, advances layer by layer, and gradually wins the scenery among the people until the soul is purified and converted. The first couplet "In the pure morning, near the old temple, the early sunshine points to the treetops" directly breaks the theme, points out the time and place, and describes a common natural scenery. Although there are no surprises, they are all handy, but they have a special purpose: to hang out readers' feelings about adventure victory and pave the way for the following. The couplet "My road twists and turns, through a sheltered valley, branches and flowers, to a Buddhist retreat" is a famous sentence, which has been sung through the ages because of its neat antithesis, ingenious craftsmanship, close attention to the theme and fascinating association. The theme of this poem should be "Birds are singing and mountains are shining here, and people's hearts are quiet", which is a harmonious and perfect symphony. Wang Anshi's famous phrase "Spring Breeze and Green Jiang Nanan" has been praised by people for its good use of the word "green". However, the usage of "Yue" and "Kong" in these two poems is the same as that of "Qing", both of which move as adjectives, and both "Yue" and "Kong" have Buddhist ideas, so the beauty of these two sentences is even better than that of Wang Anshi. As for the couplet "There is no sound here, but there are bells", it seems contradictory, because since all sounds in nature are silent, where are the bells? Even so, when we understand the previous poems, we can know that the poet has washed away the vulgar dust, and his heart is empty, and he has completely escaped into the embrace of the quiet and beautiful world where heaven and man are one, which will naturally lead to the illusion that "everything is silent here." More importantly, Zhong Qing's voice reflects that the silent Buddhist temple is more empty, making this solemn world more solemn and making this moment eternal. There is a poem saying: "cicadas make the forest quiet, and the sound palace mountain is more secluded." The two can be said to be the same as different songs! In a word, this poem is seamless, without suspicion of piling up words, and it is fascinating to say.
Second, analysis:
China's landscape poems were quite mature in the Tang Dynasty. Scholars often pin their hopes on writing such poems and like to combine mountains and rivers with Buddhism and Taoism, from which they get some comfort and some catharsis. Meditation after the Broken Mountain Temple is one of the best works. The "temple" and "forest" in the first two sentences of this poem are Zen, but they are not far-reaching; Only when the poet enters the post-Zen Temple through a winding path and gets a wonderful sentence, "Birds singing live here, and people's hearts touch the pool peacefully", can Zen be pushed to a profound realm. Most of the landscape poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty praised seclusion and interest, all of which had an artistic conception of leisure, but each had its own unique style and achievements. Chang Jian's poem, written in Jueyou, has the general artistic conception of landscape poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but its style is elegant, which is different from Wang Wei's loftiness and Meng Haoran's plainness in art and is really unique.
This poem follows the pace of the author. Poetry is elegant, but artistic conception is high. It shows the quietness of the temples in the mountains, and the scenery description is light and thought-provoking, so that readers can inadvertently appreciate the quiet atmosphere in the mountains. Although this poem is a landscape poem, it also vaguely reveals the author's "Zen" nature and shows the author's admiration for the purity of Buddhism.
This poem follows the pace of the author. Poetry is elegant, but artistic conception is high. It shows the quietness of the temples in the mountains, and the scenery description is light and thought-provoking, so that readers can inadvertently appreciate the quiet atmosphere in the mountains. Although this poem is a landscape poem, it also vaguely reveals the author's "Zen" nature and shows the author's admiration for the purity of Buddhism.