No one can be seen in the silent valley, only the voice is heard.
The shadow of the sunset shone into the depths of the forest, and the scenery on the moss was pleasant.
Wang Wei is an outstanding representative of landscape pastoral poetry, and his poems have the characteristics of painting in poetry and poetry in painting. This poem is no exception. Human voices and echoes show their silence in the empty valley; The faint afterglow reflected on the moss deep in the forest, showing its darkness. In a word, this poem gives people a cold and gloomy feeling.
"There seems to be no one on the empty mountain, but I think I heard a voice." "No one" is empty. "Empty Chai Men people are absent, and empty forests are alone with white clouds." This void describes the silence in the mountains, not the dead silence, not the silence. I can't see people because I can't see as far as I can. Is there really no one? No, the next sentence "however, I think I heard a voice" means that there is obviously someone. It just means that this place is quiet, so I can smell people's voices.
I have also written about an empty mountain, and I have also written about Jingmei's Autumn Night in a Mountain, which is bright in tone, floating in a quiet tone with a peaceful and quiet atmosphere and containing lively vitality. Although it is very quiet in the mountains, Niaoming Creek has a fresh artistic conception. And "Luzhai" has a cold ethereal color. Let's look at Dan Wen. In the mountains, we should think of Yingying singing and rustling the wind, but the author didn't hear it. The only thing he heard was the human voice. Use static contrast to reflect the empty atmosphere.
Three or four sentences: "The sunshine there enters a small forest and shines back on me from the moss", from sound to color, from empty mountains to deep forests. "Back to the scene" not only shows that the light is weak, but also shows that the time is short; "Moss" means darkness and humidity in the deep forest. When a touch of afterglow shines on the moss, the sudden light becomes the focus of this dark area, setting off the surrounding darkness and cold silence.
If one or two sentences reflect emptiness with sound, then three or four sentences reflect darkness with light. Quiet and almost empty, quiet and slightly cold. The whole poem is like adding a little warm color to most cool pictures, which makes the impression of cool color more profound.
Note: Chai Lu-a scenic spot in Wangchuan. Wangchuan is located in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, where Wang Wei lived in seclusion in his later years. He runs a big villa with beautiful scenery here.