One is the silence of an empty door, and the old man is idle, accompanying the birds to and from the clouds. The home is full of bottles and jars of books, half of which are included in Xiangshan.
Secondly, I like to climb the loose cover on windy rocks and sit on the edge of Moon Lake. He became attached to Yunquan and was born in this mountain as a monk.
"Two Wonders of Xiangshan Temple" is a seven-character quatrain written by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the poet's dull and leisurely life after seclusion in Xiangshan Temple in his later years, and expresses the poet's satisfaction with this leisurely and quiet life.
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① Empty gate: refers to the Buddhist temple. The poem "You Shan Juan Bi Xian Yan" written by Ming Camellia: "An empty door opens at sunset, and the fasting clock comes out of Lin Mang." Old man: the poet's self-declaration.
② Stone edge: the edges and corners of the stone. This refers to polygonal rocks in particular. Tang Guyu's poem "Crossing the Cave in Mr. Zhang's Temple" says: "Climb the stone edge of the side wall and dare to move forward."
3 Mountain Monk: A monk living in a mountain temple. Yu Xin's poem "Sleeping Sick and Poor" in the Northern Zhou Dynasty: "When you are old, you will visit each other, and the mountain monks will see you."
Brief introduction of the author
Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan (now Xinzheng, Zhengzhou) in his later years. He is a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty, and a poet and writer with outstanding reputation and far-reaching influence in the history of China literature. His poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and plain language, and are known as "Poet Fairy" and "Poet King", and are also called "Li" with Li Bai and Du Fu.
Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.