Wang Dongting is a seven-character quatrain written by Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Dongting is contained in 365 volumes of All Tang Poems. This poem fully shows the poet's whimsy through the description of Dongting Lake. Expressed the poet's love and praise for Dongting Lake.
Title: Wang Dongting
Creation year: Middle Tang Dynasty
Source of works: whole Tang poetry
Literary genre: seven-character quatrains
Author: Liu Yuxi
Subject: Landscape Poetry
original work
Wang Dongting 1
The lake and the moon are two phases and 2, and the windless mirror on the pool surface does not grind 3.
Looking at Dongting Mountain and water in the distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
Annotation translation
Sentence annotation
Dongting: The name of the lake is in the north of Hunan Province today.
Lake light: the wave light on the lake. Two: the lake and the autumn moon. Harmony: Harmony. Water and moonlight reflect each other.
Pond surface: refers to the lake surface. Mirrors are not polished: ancient mirrors were made of copper. Here, it is said that the lake is as calm as a mirror; It is said that the scenery in the lake is blurred from a distance, just like a mirror is blurred without polishing.
Green landscape: also known as "landscape color". Mountain: refers to Junshan Mountain in Dongting Lake.
Silver plate: describes the calm and clear Dongting Lake. Silver: a "white cloud". Green snail: used here to describe the military mountain in Dongting Lake.
Translation of works
On Dongting Lake, moonlight and water blend together, and the lake is as calm as an unpolished bronze mirror.
Looking at Dongting Lake from a distance, the landscape is as green as ink, like a green snail in a silver plate.
Brief introduction of the author
Liu Yuxi (772-842) was born in Luoyang, China (now Luoyang, Henan) in the Tang Dynasty. He called himself a "Luoyang native" and also a native of Zhongshan (now Dingzhou, Hebei Province). He was the first king of Zhongshan Sheng and was named "Lushan" in his later years. Liu Yuxi was a scholar in the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793). At the beginning, he served as a document in the Duyou shogunate in Huainan, and was highly valued by Duyou. Later, he entered the DPRK from Du You and supervised the empire. At the end of Zhenyuan, he made friends with Liu Zongyuan, Han Ye and formed a political group headed by Wang. Later, he successively served as Sima of Langzhou, Secretariat of Lianzhou, Secretariat of Kuizhou, Secretariat of Hezhou, Doctor of Host and Guest, Doctor of Ritual and Secretariat of Suzhou. Liu Yuxi's last post was Prince Ke, so Liu Yuxi's Poems was named Liu Ke Ji. Bai Juyi praised Liu Mengde as a Pengcheng poet, so Liu Yuxi was also called a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty. He was an outstanding writer, politician, philosopher, poet and essayist in the middle Tang Dynasty, and was called "Mr. Suixi" by the world.