1. Stork: The former site is in Yongji County, Shanxi Province. It is three stories high, with the front facing Zhongtiao Mountain and the bottom facing the Yellow River. It is said that storks often inhabit here, hence the name.
2. Day: the sun.
3. rely on. The sun sets near the mountains.
4. Poverty: exhaustion.
Rhyme translation:
The sunset slowly sank to the west hill,
The Yellow River is flowing to the East China Sea of China.
If you want to see the scenery thousands of miles away,
It is necessary to climb a higher tower.
[Brief analysis]
The poet's extraordinary ambition to climb high and look far reflects the enterprising spirit of the people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
The first two sentences describe what you see. "Mountain colors cover the day" describes the vision and mountain colors. Standing on the stork tower, the author looked west and saw a vast sea of clouds and empty mountains. Because the clouds covered the fog, the sun turned white and sank beside the mountain. "and the golden river lost by the ocean" describes the close-up and water. Downstairs, the surging Yellow River flows into the sea. These two sentences are magnificent, magnificent and exciting to read.
The last two sentences are what you think. "But you broaden your horizons by three hundred miles" is the poet's endless desire to explore, and he wants to see further. The only way to see where his eyesight can reach is to stand higher. "Going up a storey", "a thousand miles" and "a storey" are imaginary numbers, which are both vertical and horizontal spaces in the poet's imagination. The words "want to be poor" and "go higher" contain much. If you look far, you must climb higher.
This poem consists of two neat antitheses. The first two sentences are relative nouns "daytime" and "Yellow River", colors "white" and "yellow" are relative, and verbs "one" and "gold" are relative. The last two sentences, too, constitute the perfection of form
The former site of the stork tower was on a hill of the Yellow River in Yongji County, Shanxi Province, and was later washed away by the flood. Shen Kuo's "Meng Qian Bi Tan" records that "the stork building has three floors and overlooks the river from halfway up the mountain." It can be seen that it was washed away after the Song Dynasty.
About the author: Wang Zhihuan (688-742) was born in Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi) and moved to Jiangzhou (now Jiangxian, Shanxi), a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Stork Tower, also known as Stork Tower, is named after its former site in the southwest of Zhou Pu (now Yongji County, a house in the river in the Tang Dynasty) in Shaanxi Province, and storks sometimes inhabit it. Shen Kuo wrote in "Talking about Meng Xi": "There are storks in the houses in the river.
The first two sentences of the poem, "The mountains cover the day, and the ocean drains the golden river", are about the scenery seen from the stairs, which is magnificent and magnificent. Here, the poet uses extremely simple and simple language to highly visualize and highly summarize the rivers and mountains of Wan Li that have entered a broad field of vision. When we read these ten words a thousand years later, we felt as if we were underground. If we see the scenery, we will feel open-minded. The first sentence says that the sunset sinks to the endless and rolling Shanxi Group in front of the building, but it is not in Ran Ran at the end of the field of vision. This is the sky view, the distant view and the western view. The second sentence says that the Yellow River, which flows through the lower part of the building, roared south, then turned east in the distance and turned back. From west to east, these two poems, together, contain the scenery of up and down, far and near, and things under the pen, making the picture look particularly broad and distant. As far as the second poem is concerned, the poet can't see the Yellow River entering the sea on the stork building. The sentence is a middle scene produced by the poet watching the Yellow River go away from the horizon, which is a way to combine the foreground with the middle scene.
There are two sentences in Du Fu's Song of Wang Zai's Landscape Painting: "Traveling in ancient times, talking about Wan Li recently". Although it is about painting, it can also be used to talk about poetry. Wang Zhihuan's two poems on landscape painting reduced Wan Li to a close-up and made it look like Wan Li.
At this point, the poem seems to have written all the scenery in front of us, but surprisingly, in the second half of the poem, the poet pushed the poem to a higher level and showed readers a bigger vision with the words "But you went up a storey still higher and broadened your horizons by three hundred miles". These two poems are not only unexpected, but also very natural, close to the first two. At the same time, the use of the word "Lou" at the end also plays a role in pointing out that this is a poem about climbing stairs. It can be inferred from the second half of this poem that the first half may be written on the second floor, and the poet wants to see the distant scenery as far as possible, even climbing to the roof. The poem seems to write the process of climbing stairs directly, which has far-reaching implications and lasting exploration.
As far as the whole poem is concerned, this poem is said by the Japanese monk Konghai in On the Chamber of Secrets in the Mirror. Some people say that poetry should not be reasonable. This should only mean that poetry should not be inferred in a blunt, boring and abstract way, rather than that philosophy cannot be revealed and promoted in poetry. Just like this poem, truth is seamlessly integrated with scenery and events, so that readers don't think it is reasoning.
There is another feature in the writing of this poem: it is a antithetical sentence. When Shen Deqian selected this poem in Tang Poetry, he pointed out: "All four languages are right, not thinking high, not thinking aloud." There are only two couplets in the quatrains, both of which are antithetical sentences. If the momentum is not full and the meaning is incoherent, it is easy to be dull or fragmented. The latter is a flowing pair. Although these two sentences are relative, there is no trace of confrontation. The poet's antithesis technique is also very mature.
Meng Qian Bi Tan pointed out that "only Li Yi, Wang Zhihuan and Chang Dang can describe the scenery" in the poems left by the Tang people in the stork building. Li Yi's poems are seven-rhythm poems; The poem of the long swing is also a poem of five elements, and the title is also in the heron lodge. The whole poem is as follows: "On the birds, the sky rises and the dust rises, the sky surrounds Ye Ping, and the rivers break the mountains." The poetic scene is also magnificent, and it is a masterpiece, but Wang Zhihuan's poems come first. Comparatively speaking, Wang's poems had to be defeated in the end.
The stork tower is located in the southwest of Yongji County, Shanxi Province, with three floors, facing the Yellow River, and was washed away by the Yellow River. It was rebuilt in 2002. This poem describes the author climbing a building and overlooking it, and a broad picture is presented before him: the sun is setting and the Yellow River is rushing, and the poet can't help but sing two philosophical sentences: "But when you go up a storey, your vision is broadened by three hundred miles".