Author Yuan Tangwen
The west wind blew the waves in the old Dongting, and Xiang Jun had a lot of white hair all night. Being totally drunk I can’t see the sky is in the water. A boat laden with sweet dreams weighs down the Milky Way.
This poem is a travel poem written by Tang Gong on an autumn night when he drifted to Qingcao Lake in the north of Hunan. The general meaning of the poem is that the Dongting Lake seems to be aging a lot because of the strong autumn wind. After a night of melancholy, Xiang Jun should also have more white hair. When he was drunk, he forgot that the stars in the water were just reflections, and the clear dreams were all over the boat, so that he weighed down the Milky Way. This is a travel poem with great artistic personality.
Let's take a look at these two sentences. The west wind blows the waves in the old Dongting Lake, and the white hair of Xiang Jun is abundant all night. An old word in these two sentences can't be easily let go. The autumn wind rustles, and the Dongting Lake in vast expanse is covered with layers of Bai Bo. Compared with the quiet clear water in spring, that scene gives people a deep feeling of passing away from Sichuan, and the poet's sadness for autumn also looms out, but he didn't mean to speak out, but shaped it.
Let's look down three or four sentences. When we were drunk, we didn't know that the sky was in the water, and the boat was full of dreams. At this time, the author seemed to feel that he was not boating in Dongting Lake, but rowing on the Milky Way. What he saw around the boat was a starry world. The poet wrote the dream so beautifully that it was as attractive as a fairy tale. However, this song should only be in the sky, and he was left in his heart when he woke up, only endless disappointment.