Original text:
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 from a distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
Translation:
The moonlight and water color blend together on Dongting Lake, and the lake surface is as calm as an unpolished bronze mirror.
Looking at Dongting Lake from a distance, the mountains and rivers are as green as ink, as if a green snail is held in a white silver plate.
"Looking at the Dongting" is a poem written by Liu Yuxi, a litterateur in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake under the moonlight on an autumn night, expresses the poet's love and praise for the scenery of Dongting, and shows the poet's magnificent and extraordinary magnanimity and noble and unique sentiments.
Extended information:
Creative background:
"Looking at the Dongting" is the story of Liu Yuxi who went to Hezhou to serve as the governor of Hezhou in the autumn of the fourth year of Emperor Changqing's reign (824). Made while passing Dongting Lake. Liu Yuxi said in the preface of "Seventy Rhymes of Liyang Shushi": "In August of the fourth year of Changqing, I transferred from Kuizhou to Liyang (Hezhou), floated on the Minjiang River, watched Dongting, Lixiakou, and crossed Xunyang. East." Liu Yuxi was demoted to Nanhuang and came to Dongting about six times in the past twenty years. According to records, he visited Dongting. Among them, only this time he was transferred to Hezhou, which was in the autumn. This poem is a vivid record of this trip.
This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake under the moonlight on an autumn night. The microwave is quiet, quiet and beautiful, and extremely pleasant. The poet's imagination flew wildly, and with a fresh style of writing, he vividly described the quiet, peaceful and hazy beauty of Dongting Lake, and sketched a beautiful Dongting landscape, which showed the poet's love for nature.