“When the sun sets, the red clouds of the western mountains fly away, and the solitary owl chases its shadow across the sky. The autumn water shines on the sky, and the long sky is red and the sun sets.” The author of this poem is Wang Bo, one of the four heroes of the early Tang Dynasty. It describes the scene in "The Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" written by Wang Bo, "The setting clouds and solitary swans fly together, and the autumn water and the long sky are the same color." Translation
At dusk, the sun sets over the western mountains. The setting clouds and the lone wild geese fly together. The shimmering water surface and the distant sky filled with sunset clouds form a curtain. "Xia" is a kind of small moth, and "Luo" means loneliness. The lonely moths fly together with the lonely wild geese, which creates a feeling of loneliness. About the author
Wang Bo (ca. 650-ca. 676), courtesy name Zian, was a Han nationality and a poet of the Tang Dynasty. A native of Longmen, Jiangzhou (today's Hejin, Shanxi), he was born into a Confucian family. He was known as the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty" together with Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and King Luo Bin, with Wang Bo being the leader of the four heroes. Wang Bo was smart and studious since he was a child. According to the "Old Book of Tang Dynasty", he was able to write articles at the age of six. His writing was fluent and he was praised as a "child prodigy". When he was nine years old, he read Yan Shi's ancient annotations of "Hanshu" and wrote ten volumes of "Zhixia" to correct his mistakes. At the age of sixteen, Ying Yousu passed the examination and was appointed Chaosan Lang. He was kicked out of Prince Pei's Mansion for doing "Cock Fighting". After that, Wang Bo spent three years touring the mountains and rivers of Bashu and wrote a large number of poems. After returning to Chang'an, he asked Guozhou to join the army. While serving in the army, he was demoted twice for killing an official slave privately. In August of the third year of Shangyuan (676), when he was returning from Jiaozhi to visit his father, he unfortunately crossed the sea and drowned, and died of panic. Wang Bo is good at five rhymes and five unique poems in poetry genres. His representative works include "Sending Du Shaofu to Shuzhou". His main literary achievement is parallel prose, which is excellent in terms of quantity and quality. His representative works include "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion". wait.