Desire: want, poverty: exhaustion. Want to be poor: I want to go to the end.
If you want to see the scenery of thousands of miles, you must climb a higher tower. If you want to achieve greater success, you must make more efforts.
It's from at heron lodge by Wang Zhihuan, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The original text:
mountains cover the white sun, and oceans drain the golden river.
but you widen your view three hundred miles, by going up one flight of stairs.
Translation: The sunset slowly sinks next to the western hills, and the surging Yellow River surges toward the East China Sea. If you want to see the scenery of thousands of miles, you must climb a higher tower.
Extended information:
About the author:
Wang Zhihuan (688—742) was a famous poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, whose name was Ji Ling, Han nationality, and Ji Men, and he was from Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). Bold and uninhibited, he often mourns fencing, and his poems were mostly sung by musicians at that time. At that time, he often sang with Gao Shi and Wang Changling, and was famous for describing the frontier fortress scenery. His representative works include at heron lodge and Liangzhou Ci.
Wang Zhihuan moved from Bingzhou (Taiyuan, Shanxi Province) to Jiangzhou (now Xinjiang County, Shanxi Province) in his early years, and served as the master book of Hengshui in Jizhou. Li Di, the magistrate of Hengshui County, betrothed his third daughter to him. Because of being slandered, he was dismissed from office, and later returned to serve as the captain of Wen' an County, and died during his term of office.
Wang Zhihuan is "generous and generous, charming and talented". He was good at writing articles in his early years, and he was good at writing poems, which were often quoted as lyrics. He is especially good at five-character poems, and wins by describing the scenery of frontier fortress. He is a romantic poet. Jin Neng's "Epitaph of Wang Zhihuan" said that his poem "Taste or sing to join the army, sing out the fortress, and worry about the bright moon in the mountains, and Xiao Xi gets the sound of the cold wind, which spreads to the movement and spreads to the population."
But there are only six quatrains in his works, including three frontier poems. His poems are represented by at heron lodge and Liangzhou Ci. Zhang Taiyan called Liangzhou Ci "the most quatrains".
Appreciation of Poetry:
The extraordinary ambition of the poet who wrote this poem in the process of climbing high and looking far reflects the positive and enterprising spirit of people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Among them, the first two sentences write what you see. "mountains cover the white sun" writes about the vision, the mountains, the scenery you can see when you climb the building, and "and oceans drain the golden river" writes about the close-up scenery, and the water is spectacular and magnificent.
Here, the poet uses extremely simple and plain language to capture the Wan Li rivers and mountains that have entered a broad field of vision in just ten words; Later, when people read these ten words in a thousand years, they felt as if they were in the ground. If they saw the scenery, they felt that their minds were open. Looking into the distance, a sunset sinks towards the endless and rolling mountains in front of the building, and disappears in Ran Ran at the end of the field of vision. This is the sky view, the distant view and the west view.
The Yellow River, which flows under the front of the building, roared and rolled south, then turned east in the distance and flowed to the sea. This is from the ground to the horizon, from near to far, from west to east. When these two poems are combined, the scenery of up and down, far and near, and things are all contained under the pen, which makes the picture look particularly broad and distant.
As far as the second poem is concerned, the poet is on the stork tower, and it is impossible to see the Yellow River entering the sea. The sentence is written in the middle of the poem, which is a way of combining the foreground with the middle of the sky. Writing in this way increases the breadth and depth of the picture. Calling the sun "daytime" is a realistic style.
The setting sun holds the mountain, and the clouds cover the fog barrier. The already weakened brilliance of the sun is even more dim at this time, so the poet directly observes the wonders of "daytime". As for the "Yellow River". Of course, it is also realistic. It is like a golden ribbon, flying among the mountains.
What the poet presents before him is a magnificent picture full of brilliance and splendor. This picture is still in a fast-changing dynamic. It is only a very short process to finish the day by the mountain; The Yellow River flows to the sea, but it is an eternal movement. If this kind of scenery is beautiful, then it is a kind of dynamic beauty, full of infinite vitality and lively beauty. This is not a so-called "freeze-frame", not a treasured fossil or specimen.
write what you think in the last two sentences. "but you widen your view three hundred miles", a poet's endless desire to explore, wants to see further and see where his eyesight can reach. The only way is to stand higher, "by going up one flight of stairs". "Thousands of miles" and "one floor" are imaginary numbers, which are both vertical and horizontal spaces in the poet's imagination. The words "to be poor" and "to be better" contain many hopes and longings.
These two poems, which are well-known throughout the ages, are not only innovative and unexpected, but also very natural and close to the first two poems. At the same time, the use of the word "Lou" in the ending also played a role in pointing out the topic, indicating that this is a poem about climbing the stairs. From the latter half of the poem, it can be inferred that the first half was written on the second floor, and the poet wanted to see the distant scenery as far as he could, and even climbed to the top floor of the building.
It seems that the poem only describes the process of climbing the stairs in a straightforward way, but it has far-reaching implications and is resistant to exploration. Here is the poet's enterprising spirit, far-sighted mind, and also the philosophy of standing high before seeing far.
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