The explanation of the ancient poem is: Purple haze rises from Xianglu Peak under the sunlight, and from a distance, the waterfall looks like white silk hanging in front of the mountain.
The plummeting waterfall on the high cliff seems to be thousands of feet long, making people feel as if the Milky Way is falling from the sky to the earth.
1. Basic interpretation
Wanglushan Waterfall
(Tang Dynasty) Li Bai
The incense burner in the sun produces purple smoke, and the waterfall hangs from a distance. Maekawa.
The flying stream falls three thousand feet, and it is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen into the sky.
Notes
(1) Incense Burner: This refers to Xianglu Peak. Purple smoke: refers to the sunlight passing through the clouds and fog, which looks like purple smoke from a distance. Meng Haoran's "Wanglu Mountain in Pengli Lake": "At the beginning of the day when the incense burner went up, the waterfall sprayed into a rainbow." "Rizhao" two sentences: - "Lushan Mountain is connected with the stars, and the sun shines on the incense burner and produces purple smoke." .
(2) Translated as "looking from a distance". "Changchuan" means "Changchuan".
3) Straight: means straight. Three thousand feet: describes the height of the mountain.
(4) Suspicious: refers to the band of stars formed by the Milky Way. . Jiutian: - means "half sky". The ancients believed that the sky has nine levels, and Jiutian is the highest point in the sky.
2. Details. Interpretation
This poem is a landscape poem written by the poet Li Bai when he was living in seclusion in Lushan Mountain when he was about fifty years old. This poem vividly depicts the majestic scenery of Lushan Waterfall and reflects the poet's love for the great rivers and mountains of his motherland. The first sentence is "The sun shines on the incense burner and produces purple smoke." "Xianglu" refers to the Xianglu Peak in Lushan Mountain. It is pointed and round in shape.
Because of the waterfall, The water vapor is steaming up, and under the bright sun, it seems that there is a towering incense burner slowly rising up with clouds of purple smoke. The word "生" vividly depicts the scene of rising smoke and clouds. This sentence sets a majestic scene for the waterfall. The background also adds to the atmosphere of the direct description of the waterfall.
The four words "looking at the waterfall in the distance" echo the title "Wanglu Mountain Waterfall". It means that the waterfall is like a huge white chain hanging straight from the cliff to the river in front. The word "hang" turns movement into silence, and the waterfall in the distance is written in a subtle way.
The beginning of the poem. The two sentences are written from a broad perspective, summarizing the panoramic view: the purple smoke is lingering on the top of the mountain, the white mountains are hanging, and the rapids are rushing below the mountain, forming a gorgeous and magnificent picture.
The third sentence of the poem is "Flying." "Flow straight down three thousand feet" is a detailed description of the waterfall from close range. "Flying flow" expresses the waterfall shooting out of the sky, gushing and pouring down. "Flowing straight down" not only describes the steepness of the rock wall, but also the rapidity of the water flow. "Three thousand feet" describes the waterfall in detail from a close distance. "Chi" is extremely exaggerated to describe the height of the mountain.
Writing this way, the poet felt that the majestic momentum of the waterfall had not been fully expressed, so he then wrote another sentence, "It is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen from the sky." Said this The "flying down" waterfall makes people suspect that the Milky Way is pouring down from the sky. The word "suspicious" is used in an ethereal and lively way, as if it is real or illusory, which attracts people's imagination and adds to the magical color of the waterfall.
This poem makes extremely successful use of metaphors, exaggeration and imagination, with unique conception and vivid, concise and clear language. Su Dongpo admired this poem very much and said, "The emperor sent the Milky Way to the throne, and in ancient times there were only words to banish immortals." The "Exiled Immortal" is Li Bai. "Wanglu Mountain Waterfall" is indeed an example of describing scenes and expressing emotions through objects.