The ancient poem On the Pool is a five-character quatrain written by Bai Juyi, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. This work is concise, popular and elegant, with few characters, and vividly depicts an innocent, lively, simple and lovely child image. Two monks sat down, and the bamboo forest covered the chessboard. No one can see them outside the bamboo forest. Outside the bamboo forest, people can hear the tiny gongs of two monks.
According to the collation of Bai Juyi's poems, this poem was written in the ninth year of Daiwa (835), when Prince Shaofu was building his capital in Luoyang. One day when I was swimming by the pool, I saw a monk playing chess and a baby punting and wrote this group of poems.
Bai Juyi is a great poet who is good at writing narrative poems. His long narrative poems are full of twists and turns, beautiful details and the poet's own feelings. Similarly, the sketches in his poems are more popular. Two unique poems on the pool are such a group of poems describing ordinary life. With its unique popular style, the poet wrote two small scenes: lovely, amiable and credible.
Literary appreciation
Writing the game between monks is also a reflection of one's own mentality. Monks in the deep mountains are at peace with the world and play chess under the shadow of bamboo. The purity of no dust fascinates the author.
There are at least two monks in the "Mountain Monks Playing Chess". "When I smell a sound," someone is listening, so there must be at least three people. The characters in this poem are all hidden, so although there are three people, they feel very quiet. In particular, the last sentence "When I smell a child's voice" is more like natural music, setting off real peace.