The translation of Mo Juntang's text is as follows:
Addicted to bamboo species and repeated paintings, it looks like a king's residence. The high hall leans on the empty rock, with plain walls and sparse walls. The mountain shadows cover the quiet autumn, and the moonlight is clear and empty at night. Xiao Shuang is only comfortable, who can love my house?
About the author:
Wen Tong (1018-1079), also known as Yuke, also known as Xiaoxiao Jushi and Mr. Xiaoxiao, was also known as Mr. Shishi. A native of Yongtai County, Zitong County, Zizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty (now part of Yanting County, Mianyang City, Sichuan).
Famous painter and poet. In the first year of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty (1049), he became a Jinshi. He moved to Taichang and became the school manager of Jixian. He served as magistrate of Qiongzhou, Dayi, Lingzhou, Yangzhou (today's Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province) and other prefectures or counties.
In the early years of Yuanfeng, Wen Tong went to Huzhou (today's Wuxing, Zhejiang) to take office, and the world called Wen Huzhou. On the 20th of the first month of the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), Wen Tong died of illness in Chenzhou (now Huaiyang County, Henan Province) before taking office at the age of 61.
He and Su Shi are cousins. He is famous for his scholarship and is good at poetry, calligraphy and painting. He is highly praised by Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang and others, and is especially respected by his cousin Su Shi.
Wen Tong admired Mei Yaochen very much in his poetry creation. His "Weaver Woman's Resentment" describes the hard work of a weaver woman but was made things difficult for her by officials. It has the same theme as Mei Yaochen's poem reflecting the suffering of the people.
His landscape poems are more distinctive. For example, "The smoke spreads far away and two gulls fall down on the water, and the sun shines on the high forest and a pheasant flies" ("Early Sunny Arrival at Baoen Mountain Temple"); "The cows are lying around in the deep stream, and the wheat fields are full of chickens flying around" ("Late Arrival at the Village House") ) and other sentences; the image is vivid and like a picture, which fully demonstrates the characteristics of the painter and poet who are good at framing and depicting.
In his poems, he often compared natural scenery to the famous paintings of his predecessors, such as "Sitting alone in the water pavilion with no one around, the forest is full of hangings like "Dark Bird Pictures"" ("Scenery on the Late Snow Lake by Confucians") "), "The peaks and mountains are like Li Cheng, and the valleys and valleys are like Fan Kuanneng" ("Changju"), which adds a new way of describing scenery in ancient poetry.
This has the same meaning as the painters at that time who were willing to find the meaning of painting in the poems of their predecessors. It shows that the two arts of poetry and painting in the early Northern Song Dynasty were more closely integrated than those of their predecessor Wang Wei. His "paintings in poems" took a step forward. At the same time, he also wrote poems about people, such as "Send Off Taoist Li Returns" and so on.
He wrote 40 volumes of "Danyuan Collection" and 2 volumes of "Supplementary Materials", compiled by his great-grandson Wen □, with 1 volume of "Chronology" and 2 volumes of "Appendix". There is a Yingming version of "Sibu Congkan".