The metaphor (looking at the green mountains and rivers of Dongting in the distance, a green snail on a silver plate) has the advantage of being more vivid. The image can describe the calmness and clarity of the lake and the flowing green of the mountains.
In the third and fourth sentences, the poet's sight is focused from the overall picture of the vast lake and moonlight to Junshan. Under the bright moonlight, the Dongting Mountain becomes more verdant, the Dongting water becomes clearer, and the mountains and rivers are integrated into one. It looks like a small and exquisite green snail placed in a carved silver plate, which is very endearing. . The Dongting landscape in the autumn moon described by the poet has turned into an exquisite arts and crafts treasure, giving people great artistic enjoyment. "A green snail on a silver plate" is such an incredible phrase. The excellence of this sentence is not only reflected in the elegance of the metaphor, but also in the poet's majestic and extraordinary magnanimity and the poet's noble and unique sentiments. In the eyes of the poet, the Dongting of thousands of miles away is nothing more than a mirror in the dressing room and cups and plates on the table. It is very rare to lift a heavy weight and feel it is light, to sit together naturally and without any pretentiousness. To express the relationship between man and nature in such a friendly way and to describe the scenery of lakes and mountains in such a vast and pure way is a reflection of the poet's character, sentiment and aesthetic taste. There is no spirit of thinking about the eight extremes, and the spirit of muster seeds, and there is no embrace of Nirvana, which is full of romantic whims and splendor.
Looking at Dongting
Author: Liu Yuxi
The lake and the moon are harmonious, and there is no windshield on the lake surface that has not been polished.
Looking at the green mountains and rivers of Dongting in the distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
Liu Yuxi (772-842), named Mengde, Han nationality, was born in Pengcheng (now Xuzhou) in the Tang Dynasty of China. His ancestral home was Luoyang. He was a writer and philosopher of the Tang Dynasty. He claimed to be a descendant of King Shan Jing of Hanzhong. He served as the censor and a member of Wang Shuwen's political reform group. A famous poet in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, he was known as the "Poetry Hero". His family is a scholarly family with Confucianism passed down from generation to generation. He advocated political innovation and was one of the central figures in the political innovation activities of Wang Shuwen School. Later, Yongzhen's reform failed and he was demoted to Sima of Langzhou (now Changde, Hunan). According to Mr. Zhou Xinguo, a historian and collector in Changde, Hunan, Liu Yuxi was demoted to Sima of Langzhou and wrote the famous "Spring View of Han Shou City" during his demotion.
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