The waves, magnificent scenery, majestic momentum and romantic tenderness of Dongting Lake inspire the poet's infinite feelings. They either go boating in Dongting Lake, or climb Yueyang Tower to have a bird's eye view of Dongting Lake, or express their feelings as poets.
Remember the poem "Green Snail in a Silver Plate"? Yes, it was written by Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, in Dongting Lake. The quiet Dongting Lake, the crystal clear autumn moon in Dongting Lake and Junshan Mountain in the lake left a very good impression on the poet Liu Yuxi, so he wrote this song "Looking at Dongting":
The lake and the moon set each other off, and there is no wind mirror on the pool surface.
Looking at Dongting from a distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
There have always been many poems describing the scenery of Dongting Lake. When Li Bai sent his love to Dongting Lake, he wrote a famous sentence, "We bought a bar in Bai Yunbian by moonlight in Dongting Lake". When Du Fu boarded Yueyang Tower and looked at Dongting Lake, he wrote: "I have heard about Dongting Lake for a long time, and now I am on this building. There is Wu in the east and Chu in the south, and you can see the endless floating of heaven and earth. "
There were classic poems before, so it is really a challenging job to creatively show the scenery of Dongting Lake. It is very difficult to write creatively.
The poet Liu Yuxi came to see the scenery of Dongting Lake this time. It was a clear autumn night and it was calm. Autumn night is the clearest, autumn moon is the brightest and autumn water is the calmest, so the Dongting Lake scenery presented to Liu Yuxi at this time is a quiet and peaceful lake and moonlight.
In particular, the moonlight in Dongting Lake presents a clear and transparent beauty in the eyes of poets. This poem describes Dongting Lake and the autumn moon with great imagination, which fully shows the poet's whimsy and stands out among many poems describing Dongting Lake.
Why is Liu Yuxi's Wang Dongting unique and distinctive? First of all, look at the title and the easy-to-understand poetry content, and you will know that the angle chosen by the poet is far away, and the time chosen by the poet is night, so that you can have a panoramic view of the vast Dongting Lake scenery.
One more thing, the poet focuses on describing the lakes and mountains of Dongting Lake, comparing the calm Dongting Lake to a silver plate and comparing Junshan Mountain of Dongting Lake to a green snail embedded in a silver plate. The poet presents the beautiful scenery of Dongting in front of people with free and clever metaphors, which is very artistic.
"The lake and the moon set each other off, and there is no wind mirror on the pool surface." The first two sentences say that the bright moon in autumn night shines on the clear Dongting Lake, which is calm and windless, just like a polished bronze mirror.
The first two sentences show such a picture: the moonlight and water color blend in Dongting Lake, and the lake is calm, like an unpolished bronze mirror. In particular, the word "harmony" in the first sentence is like the finishing touch, which suddenly outlines the watery and ethereal scene of Dongting Lake.
The word "harmony" also shows the beauty of Dongting Lake's natural scenery as much as possible. There is a distant space and distance between the moon in the sky and Dongting Lake, but the moonlight connects them together.
The moonlight shines on the lake, and the lake reflects the moonlight and is sparkling. The clear lake and the bright moonlight complement each other, and the water and the sky are the same. This scene is ethereal and ethereal, and poetry presents a quiet and harmonious realm.
In the second sentence, the poet describes the calm scene of Dongting Lake, which looks like a polished bronze mirror from a distance.
Bronze mirror is a mirror made of copper in ancient times and an indispensable tool in people's daily life. Although the surface of the newly cast bronze mirror is flat but not smooth, it cannot be used. Only after repeated wiping and polishing will the mirror shine.
The poet Liu Yuxi compared the water surface of Dongting Lake to an unpolished bronze mirror, saying that Dongting Lake is calm, peaceful and gentle, and has a hazy beauty in the moonlight. This hazy feeling is really appropriate to describe the lake light in the moonlight.
If the first sentence is a simple outline of the lake and the autumn moon, then the second sentence is a colorful rendering of the lake and the autumn moon, which perfectly sublimates the poetry of the lake and the autumn moon.
Because Dongting Lake is calm, the lake light and the autumn moon can be integrated and reflect each other. Imagine that if the wind in Dongting Lake is uneven and the waves are not calm, then the lake light and the autumn moon will not present a peaceful and gentle hazy beauty, and they will no longer be two-phase scenes.
The poet is experiencing the beauty of Dongting Lake's natural scenery in the autumn moon. The poet has a pair of eyes that discover beauty, seek beauty and appreciate beauty. On this Dongting Lake far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, under the calm and harmonious autumn moon, the poet is feeling the beauty and strength of nature with his heart.
Beautiful things are not far away. As long as you feel them with your heart, you will always feel their existence, because Dongting Lake is beside the poet. The poet threw himself into the lake in the autumn moon, overlooking the Dongting landscape, and the autumn night was beautiful.
When the autumn moon is in the sky, the bright moonlight shines on Dongting Lake, making it clearer and cleaner. Junshan Mountain in the center of Dongting Lake is getting greener and greener in the moonlight, and the lakes and mountains are integrated. At this time, the trinity of moonlight, lake water and Junshan in Dongting Lake is like a harmonious landscape painting.
By the way, Junshan, formerly known as Xiangshan Mountain and Dongting Mountain, is an island in the center of Dongting Lake, and Junshan is named after Dongting Lake. According to legend, Yao's daughter used to swim here, and later Shun's two concubines came here following Shun's footsteps. Qu Yuan called it "Mrs. Hexiang" in "Nine Songs", so people later renamed the island Junshan. This is also a beautiful and romantic story about the heavy humanistic imprint of Dongting Lake.
The poet Liu Yuxi wrote about Junshan in the last sentence of this poem. As mentioned above, there are not a few poems that express feelings about the landscape of Dongting Lake and describe the scenery of Dongting Lake.
Therefore, how Liu Yuxi skillfully avoids the genre and language used by his predecessors and creatively expresses the scenery of Dongting Lake is a test of the poet's talent display and artistic embodiment.
At this time, the poet's line of sight gathered on Junshan from the vast and flat lake. Under the bright moon, surrounded by Dongting Lake, from a distance, the lake is crystal clear and Junshan is green.
In the poet's eyes, Junshan and Dongting Lake are so beautiful and complement each other, just like a small green snail embedded in a beautifully carved silver plate, which is dazzling and attractive.
On a bright and crisp autumn night, Dongting Lake presents itself to the poet with a beautiful, romantic and charming gesture, giving him a good physical and mental experience.
Liu Yuxi combined this experience in his works, and Dongting Lake in his works became a work of art with exquisite workmanship and exquisite craftsmanship. Appreciating such handicrafts can bring people beautiful enjoyment.
The lake light of Dongting Lake is like the brilliance on the surface of a silver plate, and the silver light is shining. Read this sentence carefully and compare the surface of Dongting Lake to a silver plate. Whether it is the softness of the two or the brilliance of the two, it is so appropriate.
While lamenting the beauty of natural scenery, we also have to lament the poet's ingenious artistic techniques, and even more, we have to lament the grandeur and emotional charm of this poem.
In the poet's eyes, Dongting Lake seems to be an indispensable bronze mirror in life, and it is also a silver plate with exquisite workmanship and artistic sense, while Junshan surrounded by Dongting Lake is like a green snail embedded in the silver plate.
The poet's description of Dongting Lake with such feelings shows the tacit understanding and harmony between man and natural scenery, and is also the perfect integration of life and art.
This is the reason why this poem is enduring. After the baptism of time, it can still glow with new brilliance. This is also the reason why people are deeply attracted by the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake after reading this poem.
If Liu Yuxi's Dongting Lake poem itself is a work of art, I believe many people will agree with this view. Because in the seemingly understated poems, it actually contains the poet's romantic and beautiful description of Dongting Lake scenery and the poet's leisure in Dongting Lake scenery.