Translation: Sunset sets slowly along the mountains, and the surging Yellow River rushes towards the sea. Poems: mountains cover the white sun, and oceans drain the golden river. to ascend another storey to see a thousand miles further
Standing on a tall building, I saw the sunset slowly setting next to the mountains and the surging Yellow River rushing towards the sea. If you want to see the scenery thousands of miles away, you have to climb a higher tower.
From: Appreciation of Wang Zhihuan's Poem at heron lodge in the Tang Dynasty:
"mountains cover the white sun" wrote about the prospect, the mountains, the scenery seen from the stairs, and "and oceans drain the golden river" wrote about the close-up and the water, which made the scene spectacular and magnificent. Here, the poet uses extremely simple and plain language to capture the Wan Li rivers and mountains that have entered the broad field of vision in a short span of ten words.
when people read these ten words after thousands of years, they felt as if they were in the place, and they felt open-minded when they saw the scenery. Looking into the distance, a sunset sinks towards the endless and rolling mountains in front of the building, and disappears in Ran Ran at the end of the field of vision. This is the sky view, the distant view and the west view.
The Yellow River, which flows under the front of the building, roared and rolled south, then turned east in the distance and flowed to the sea. This is from the ground to the horizon, from near to far, from west to east. When these two poems are combined, the scenery of up and down, far and near, and things are all contained under the pen, which makes the picture look particularly broad and distant.