Creation background
These two poems are generally believed to have been written by Li Bai when he visited Lushan Mountain for the first time on his way to Jinling around 725 AD (13th year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty). Professor Wu Xiaoru believes that these two poems of Li Bai are different in genre and partly repetitive in content, which are not temporary works. According to Ren Hua's poem Miscellaneous Words for Li Bai, Mr. Zhan Ai thinks that the first five ancient poems were written by Li Bai before he entered Chang 'an (Kaiyuan period). It is also believed that the second four-line poem was written in 756 AD (Tianbao 15th year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty) at the turn of summer and autumn when Li Bai arrived in Lushan Mountain.
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This is a landscape poem written by Li Bai when he lived in seclusion in Lushan Mountain at about fifty years old. This poem vividly depicts the magnificent scenery of Lushan Waterfall and reflects the poet's infinite love for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. The first sentence is "Purple smoke from the Rizhao incense burner". "Incense burner" refers to the incense burner peak of Lushan Mountain. This peak is in the northwest of Lushan Mountain, with a sharp and round shape, like a censer. Because of the waterfall, water vapor transpiration, in the bright sunshine, as if there is an indomitable spirit incense burner, purple smoke rises in Ran Ran. A word "life" brings the scene of smoke rising to life. This sentence set a magnificent background for the waterfall, and also rendered the atmosphere for the following direct description of the waterfall.
The second sentence is "overlooking a thousand waterfalls in Sichuan". The word "overlooking the waterfall" takes care of the title "overlooking the Lushan waterfall". "Hanging thousands of rivers" means that the waterfall is like a huge white practice, hanging straight from the cliff to the river ahead. The word "hang" changed from dynamic to static, and Visha wrote about the waterfall in the distance.
The first two sentences of the poem outline a panoramic view from the big picture: purple smoke fills the air at the top of the mountain, white practice hangs in the mountain, and rapids rush down the mountain, forming a magnificent picture.
The third sentence "Flying down three thousands of feet" is a detailed description of the waterfall at close range. "Flying Flow" shows that waterfalls come out in the air and spew out. "Straight down" not only describes the steepness of the rock wall, but also describes the rapidity of the water flow. "Three thousands of feet" is an exaggeration, describing towering mountains.
In this way, the poet felt that the majestic momentum of the waterfall had not been fully displayed, so he went on to write a sentence, "It is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days." It is said that this waterfall "flew down", which makes people suspect that the Milky Way poured down from nine days. A "doubt" is ethereal and lively. If it is true, it makes people daydream, which adds to the magical color of the waterfall.
This poem is very successful in metaphor, exaggeration and imagination, with unique conception, vivid language and bright washing. Su Dongpo appreciates this poem very much, saying that "the emperor sent the Milky Way to fall into the pulse, and there were fallen immortals in ancient times." The "immortal" is Li Bai. Looking at Lushan Waterfall is indeed an example of body description and lyricism.
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Creation background
In 762 AD, at the height of the Tang Dynasty, Chengdu Yin entered Korea. At that time, due to the "Anshi Rebellion", Du Fu once avoided Zizhou. In the second year, the rebellion was put down and Yanwu returned to Chengdu. Du Fu also returned to Chengdu Caotang. At that time, he was in a good mood Faced with the vitality of this school, he couldn't help writing this poem.
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"Two orioles sing green willows, and a line of egrets fly into the sky." Two orioles are singing, and there is a sound. "A line of egrets goes up to the sky" has an act and an action. One horizontal and one vertical, "two" and "one" are opposite; Horizontal and vertical, it opens a very beautiful natural landscape. In this sentence, the word "Ming" is the most vivid, and the personification method is used to describe the image of the oriole. Then Du Fu talked about "the window contains autumn snow in Xiling". Outside my window, there are thousands of years of snow in Minshan, and in the west, there is a thousand years of snow in Minshan. "Soochow Wan Li Ship" There is a long Wan Li ship parked in front of my house. This forms a welcome and free ride. Welcome this snowy mountain into your sight and send this boat down the river. Therefore, this "Wan Li Ship" can pass, which also shows that the "Anshi Rebellion" has come to an end and is close to pacification. Ships can also pass at this time, and business people can come and go on this river. Then such a poem is beautiful in itself, with four sentences in pairs. There have been quatrains since the Six Dynasties. After the Tang Dynasty, quatrains became a very mature art, and many of our famous poems used quatrains. A quatrain is four sentences, and the four sentences often don't match, or the first two sentences of the four sentences don't match the scenery and the last two sentences don't match the lyric, or the first two sentences don't match the last two sentences, so now all four of his poems are matched, which can be said to be a very neat and attentive poem. Du Fu once wrote a poem that made people "swear, not surprisingly, never stop", so he put it into practice.