1. Stay overnight in the mountain temple
Li Bai [Tang Dynasty]
The dangerous building is a hundred feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hands.
Don’t dare to speak loudly for fear of frightening the heavens.
(1) Meaning:
The temple on the mountain seems to be hundreds of feet high, and it seems like you can pick off the stars if you stand on it.
Don’t dare to speak loudly for fear of alarming the immortals in the sky.
(2) Notes:
Stay: stay, stay overnight.
Dangerous building: high building, here refers to the temple on the top of the mountain. Risk: high. Hundred feet: imaginary, not a real number, used here to describe a building that is very high.
Stars: The collective name for the stars in the sky.
Slang: speak.
Fear: fear, fear. Jing: startled.
2. Chile Song,
Collection of Yuefu Poems [Southern and Northern Dynasties]
Chile River, at the foot of Yinshan Mountain.
The sky is like a dome, covering the four fields.
The sky is blue, the fields are vast, and the grass is blown by the wind, and cattle and sheep can be seen low.
(1) Meaning of ancient poetry:
At the foot of Yinshan Mountain is the great plain where the Chile people live.
The sky of the Chile River is connected to the earth, and it looks like a felt tent where herders live.
The grasslands under the blue sky are rolling with green waves. The wind blows to the lower parts of the grass, and groups of cattle and sheep appear and disappear.
(2) Notes:
"Chile Song": Chile: ethnic name, lived in Shuozhou (now northern Shanxi Province) during the Northern Qi Dynasty.
Chilechuan: Chuan: Pingchuan, plain. The place where the Chile people live is in what is now Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the area from present-day Hetao Plain to Tumochuan River was called Chilechuan.
Yinshan: in the northern part of today's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Qionglu: A tent made of felt cloth, that is, a yurt.
Cover the four fields: Cage, there are other versions called "cover" (Volume 1 of Hong Mai's "Essays of Rong Zhai" and Volume 31 of the later volume of Hu Zai's "Tiaoxi Yuyincong Hua"); four fields , in all directions of the grassland.
Cang Cang: green. Cang, green. Tiancangcang: The sky is blue.
Boundless: the appearance of vastness.
See: same as "appear", reveal.