Sleeping in the Mountain Temple is generally regarded as a poem by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem depicts the towering buildings in the temple in an extremely exaggerated way, expressing the poet's amazement at the engineering art of ancient temples and his yearning and pursuit of immortal life. The language of the whole poem is simple and natural, the imagination is magnificent, and the exaggeration is clever and vivid, giving people rich associations and immersive feelings.
The high-rise building of the temple on the mountain is really high, it seems to be 100 feet. People upstairs seem to be able to pick off the stars in the sky with one hand. Standing here, I dare not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in the sky.
This song "Sleeping in the Mountain Temple" is generally considered to be the work of Li Bai, written in Huangmei County, Hubei Province, and is about Jiangxin Temple on the top of Caishanfeng Mountain in Huangmei County. However, there are quite a few poems with similar topics and contents handed down from ancient times, such as Tifeng Temple and Sleeping in Infinite Temple. The authors' signatures are quite complicated, including Li Bai, Wang Yucheng, Yang Yi, Yan Shu and Meng Guan.
The poem written by Li Bai in Huangmei County, Hubei Province is Tifeng Temple, and the content of Li Bai's poem Sleeping in the Mountain Temple in primary school Chinese textbooks since the 1980s should be the content of Li Bai's juvenile poem "Going upstairs", but the poem "Going upstairs" is actually Li Bai's poem about the Yuewang Building in Mianzhou.
Appreciating the works of Night Stay Mountain Temple:
The poet spent the night in a temple in the deep mountains, and found a high Buddhist scripture-storing building behind the temple, so he climbed it. Looking at the distance from the railing, there are many stars. Li Bai wrote this short poem about a scenic trip full of poetry. The language of this poem is natural and simple, but the image is realistic. There are no uncommon words in the whole poem, but the words are amazing, which can be called a peerless masterpiece of "seeing strange words in plain sight"
With the help of bold imagination, the poet exaggerates the extraordinary height of the mountain temple, vividly depicts the towering mountain temple and the fear at night, thus presenting an almost unimaginable grand building to the readers, giving people an immersive feeling. Picking stars and shocking the world, these seemingly naive ideas are used by poets and used in poetry, which makes people feel interesting and return to nature.