Birdsong Stream
Era: Tang Dynasty Author: Wang Wei Genre: Five Unique
The people are idle, the osmanthus flowers are falling, the night is quiet and the spring mountains are empty.
When the moon comes out, birds startle the mountains, and they sing in the spring stream.
Wang Wei likes to create a quiet artistic conception in his landscape poems, and this poem is no different. The word "human leisure" shows that there are no human disturbances around, indicating the poet's inner peace. It highlights the integration of man and nature!
[Appreciation]
This five-character poem mainly depicts the quiet scene at night in the deep mountains and valleys, expressing the author's love for nature.
The greatest artistic characteristic of poetry is to use movement to contrast stillness, and to blend stillness with movement. The two sentences "Osmanthus flowers fall when people are idle, and the spring sky is in the quiet night" describe a quiet and beautiful artistic conception: in the quiet valley, there are few people around, only the spring osmanthus falls silently; the deeper in the night, everything is silent, as if there is nothing . Then the poet wrote a more poetic scene: "The moonrise scares the birds, and they sing in the spring stream." Because the mountains are so quiet, when a bright moon suddenly rises and its bright silver light shines on the empty valley shrouded in night, it actually alarms the birds in the mountains, and they start chirping by the valley stream. This cry seemed to break the tranquility of the mountain for a moment, but it also made people feel that the empty mountain was even more peaceful and quiet. Wang Ji once wrote a poem like this: "The noisy cicadas in the forest are more quiet, and the mountains with singing birds are even more secluded." Wang Wei's little poem has the same meaning but the same meaning. But if you taste it carefully, Wang Ji's poems can't help but give people a sense of reasoning. They are full of philosophical implications, but they lack vivid descriptions. However, this poem is written with realistic images, vivid and natural, and infinite interest.
Although the poem contains flowers falling, moonrise, and birds chirping, "these moving scenery makes the poem appear full of vitality and not dull, and at the same time, through movement, it more prominently shows the tranquility of the spring stream" ("Dictionary of Appreciation of Tang Poetry"). 》), it can be seen that it is still coming from behind