Birdsong Stream
Wang Wei (Tang Dynasty)
Osmanthus flowers fall when people are idle,
The night is quiet and the spring sky is empty.
The moonrise scares the mountain birds,
Whenever the moon rises, they sing in the spring stream.
What is written in the poem is the falling flowers, the moonrise, and the singing of birds. These moving scenes not only make the poem appear full of vitality but not dull, but at the same time, through the movement, they more prominently show the beauty of the spring stream. quiet.
I felt the process of the blooming osmanthus falling off the branches, floating down, and landing on the ground.
At the same time, it seemed that I had entered the scenic scene of "Fragrant Forest Flower Rain". The "Spring Mountain" here also leaves a blank in our imagination. Because it is a "Spring Mountain", we can imagine the noisy scene during the day: the beautiful spring sunshine, the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, and the laughter and laughter. At this time, in the dead of night, the tourists have left, the noise of the day has disappeared, and the mountains and forests have become idle. In fact, what is "empty" is the poet's state of mind as a Zen practitioner. Only with his free and easy state of mind can he capture scenes that others cannot experience.
The last sentence, "The moonrise frightens the mountain birds, and they sing in the spring streams." It uses movement to describe tranquility. One "startle" and one "chirp" seem to break the tranquility of the night, but in fact, it uses sound. The description sets off the tranquility and leisure in the mountains: the moon emerged from the clouds, the quiet moonlight streamed down, a few birds woke up from their sleep, murmured a few times from time to time, and sang softly with the spring mountain stream. The sound of water flowing brings the overall artistic conception of this silent mountain forest to the reader's eyes.
The mind seems to follow the poet's words and enter the quiet and unconventional picture.