Said by: Viewing the Sea is a four-character poem by Cao Cao, a poet in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Original text:
See the boundless ocean
Han Dynasty: Cao Cao
On the east coast, climb Jieshi Mountain to see the vast sea.
The sea is so vast that the islands stand high on the sea.
Trees and paraquat are very lush. Autumn wind makes trees make sad sounds, and the sea is surging.
The movement of the sun and the moon seems to come from the vast ocean.
A trip to the sun and the moon, if unexpected;
Han is a talented star, if you take him by surprise.
I am glad to use this poem to express my inner desire.
Translation:
Go east, climb Jieshi Mountain and enjoy the boundless sea.
How vast the sea is, and the mountain island stands high on the seaside.
Trees and herbs flourish.
The autumn wind blows the trees and makes a sad sound, and the sea is rough.
The movement of the sun and the moon seems to emanate from this vast ocean.
The Milky Way galaxy is full of stars, as if they were born from this vast ocean.
I am very happy, so I use this poem to express my inner ambition.
Extended data:
Creative background:
Looking at the sea gives the poet deep feelings, through which we can see the poet's own soul. Cao Cao climbed Jieshi Mountain on the way to the northern expedition to Wuhuan this time.
Wuhuan was a great disaster in Northeast China at that time. In the 11th year of Jian 'an (AD 206), Wu Huan conquered Youzhou and captured more than 100,000 Han people. In the same year, Yuan Shang and Yuan, the sons of Yuan Shao, colluded with Ta Dun, the leader of Wuhuan in western Liaoning, and repeatedly harassed the border.
So that Cao Cao had to resolutely decide to conquer Wuhuan in the 12th year of Jian 'an. Later, under Tian Chou's fingerprint, he used a trick. After watching the sea, that is, in a big battle in August this year, Cao Cao finally won a decisive victory.
This victory consolidated Cao Cao's rear areas and laid the foundation for the next year's conquest of the south, with a view to realizing the grand aspiration of reunifying China. Linking the events before and after, we can see how important a war Cao Cao's northern expedition to Wu Huan was.
And "Looking at the Sea" was written when I passed Jieshi Mountain on my way to northern expedition to Wuhuan. As commander in chief, Cao Cao climbed Jieshi, and so did Qin Huang and Wu Han. It was also a bleak autumn wind.
His mood is as difficult to calm as the sea. He integrated his grand ambition and broad mind into his poems and expressed it through the image of the sea.
Appreciate:
From the antithesis of poetry, Jieshi, which is adjacent to Jieshi in the east, actually refers to the mountain, while the sea, which looks at the sea, refers not to the sea in general, but to the Bohai Bay, where the water is pale.
The first two sentences explain the location of looking at the sea. The last six sentences describe the natural scenery seen when climbing the mountain to see the sea. On the vast sea, what you see is a towering mountain island. What Cao Cao saw on Jieshi Mountain was Berti Island surrounded by seawater.
According to historical records, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a transgression along the coast of Bohai Bay. As the sea level rises and the coastline retreats, the shell dike outside Jieshi Mountain is washed away and divided into scattered and isolated islands in the sea, and Yu Hongbo is in bud.
Now, some villages outside Jieshi Mountain are named after Lijiashanzi, Xingjiashanzi and Mashanzi. Facing the bleak autumn wind and the turbulent sea, Cao Cao stood on the lush mountain island without any sentimental feelings.
On the contrary, he grasped the state of the sea when it was calm, the majestic posture of the seaside islands, and the lush scenery, and outlined a picture with vast colors and magnificent weather, showing the poet's feelings of loving magnificent rivers and mountains.
Through rich imagination, the four sentences in "Wandering Between the Sun and the Moon" depict the majestic momentum of the sea, including pregnant stars, and reflect the poet's mind, ambition and lofty sentiments. "Fortunately, there is ambition in singing", which is a cliche in the chorus and has nothing to do with the content of the text.
Looking at the Sea is the first complete landscape poem in the history of China's poetry, which has played an important role in promoting the prosperity of landscape poems and landscape poems in later generations.