Chunzhuang Wang Bo’s ancient poem is read aloud with pinyin as follows:
The ancient poem "Chunzhuang".
Era: Tang Dynasty.
Author: Wang Bo.
In the mountain (hān) (zhōng) orchid (lán) leaf (yè) path (jìng),
outside the city (chéng) (wài) plum (lǐ) peach (táo) ) garden (yuán).
How (qǐ) know (zhī) people (rén) things (shì) quiet (jìng),
not (bù) aware (jué) birds (niǎo) sounds (shēng) ) Noise (xuān).
Translation notes:
There is a path full of orchids in the mountain forest, and there is a garden full of peaches and plums outside the city. Away from the mundane world, it became quiet, and even the chirping of birds was not noisy at all.
How do you know: How do you know?
Author introduction:
Wang Bo (about 650-676), a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Han nationality, named Zi'an. A native of Longmen, Jiangzhou (now Hejin, Shanxi). Wang Bo is as famous as Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and King Luo Bin, and is known as the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty". Wang Bo is the first of the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty".
Wang Bo is smart and studious. He can write at the age of six and writes fluently. He is praised as a "child prodigy". When he was nine years old, he read Yan Shigu's Notes on Hanshu and wrote ten volumes of Zhixia to correct his mistakes. At the age of sixteen, Yousu passed the imperial examination and was awarded literature in Chao Sanlang and Pei Wang (Li Xian) Mansion. He wrote "The Fighting Cock Call" and was exempted from official duties. He visited the mountains and rivers of Bashu and wrote a lot of poems.
After returning to Chang'an, he was appointed to Guozhou to join the army, privately killed an official slave, and was demoted for the second time. In August of the third year of Shangyuan (676), when Wang Bo was returning from Jiaozhi to visit his father, he crossed the sea and drowned, and died of shock.
Wang Bo was good at the Five Rhythms and the Five Jue. He opposed the extravagant style of writing and advocated the expression of strong emotions and powerful momentum. The most famous text is "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion". The original collection has been lost, but there is a edited version called "Wang Zi'an Collection".