The poem "Mountain Journey" depicts a picture of autumn colors in the mountains and forests composed of mountain roads, people's homes, white clouds, and red leaves.
Source: "Mountain Journey" is a poem written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the autumn scenery, showing a moving picture of autumn colors in mountains and forests. Mountain roads, people's homes, white clouds, and red leaves form a harmonious and unified picture.
It shows the author's high spirits and heroic thoughts. The author controls the scene with emotion, quickly and accurately captures the image that reflects the beauty of nature, and integrates his own emotions into it.
Make emotional beauty and natural beauty blend into each other, and the scenes become one with each other. The whole poem has a novel concept and exquisite layout. It captures the gorgeous autumn colors in the bleak autumn wind and competes with the spring scenery. It is pleasing to the eye and invigorating.
Original text:
Mountain Travel
Tang Dynasty: Du Mu
Far up the Hanshan Mountain, the stone path is sloping, and there are people living deep in the white clouds.
I park my car and sit in the maple forest at night, the leaves are as red as the flowers in February due to frost.
Translation:
Going up the mountain along the winding path, there are still people living deep in the white clouds.
I stopped the car because I love the evening view of the maple forest in late autumn. The maple leaves are stained by autumn frost and are more beautiful than the spring flowers in February.
Extended information:
Creative background:
This poem describes a trip to the mountains, and its specific creation time is difficult to confirm. The author climbed the mountain to enjoy the scenery in late autumn and was intoxicated by the picturesque scenery, so he wrote this poem to remember it.
Appreciation:
The title of the poem is "Mountain Journey", so as soon as it comes up, it is written "The stone path is sloping up the cold mountain in the distance". "Far up" describes the long mountain road; and from the following text, it is known that it is "coming by car", which shows the poet's strong interest in traveling.
"Cold Mountain" points out late autumn, when frost touches the earth and flowers wither. The word "Xie" on the sloping stone path echoes the word "Shang", describing the gradient of the mountain road from gentle to steep. "There is a family in the place where Baiyun is born", this is a matter of practice and hope.
From "where white clouds grow" we can see that the mountain road is higher and steeper. The word "you" in "someone's home" means that you can see the traces of mountain climbers and some houses in the mountain houses, but you can't clearly see how many courtyards and households there are.
The above two sentences are objective descriptions without much subjective color from the poet. The poet's amusement can only be partly understood from his interest in climbing. The third sentence is different.
"Stop and sit in the maple forest at night", the poet stopped the car because he wanted to carefully appreciate the evening view of the maple forest. From the word "love", we can see that the interest has greatly increased; from the word "late", we can see that the poet's interest is not exhausted.
The fourth sentence points out the reason for his ecstasy: "Frost leaves are as red as February flowers." We know that February in the old calendar is mid-spring, when peach blossoms are red and plum blossoms are white. Hundreds of flowers are blooming and flourishing.
The poet said that the frost leaves were actually redder, better, and brighter than the spring flowers in February. It is not difficult to see the poet's surprise at the frost leaves. Spring flowers in February are a beautiful image.
It is full of youthful vitality, but the poet said that the maple leaves are "redder than February flowers" when covered with frost. This not only praises the beauty of the maple leaves' appearance, but also praises its character of being proud of the frost, giving people To inspire mentally.
Introduction to the author:
Du Mu (803 AD - about 852 AD), a native of Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), was an outstanding poet and essayist in the Tang Dynasty, and was the prime minister Du You. His grandson is the son of Du Congyu. Du Mu's poems are famous for their seven-character quatrains, and their content is mainly about chanting history and expressing feelings.
He is also known as "Little Li Du" along with Li Shangyin and Du Mu, poets of the same period. "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" collects eight volumes of Du Mu's poems. Most of the poems of the late Tang Dynasty are soft and subtle, but Mu's poems are sharpened by sharpness. Qijuelong has the spirit of Yiyunyuan, and all the masters in the late Tang Dynasty let him alone.
Du Mu’s childhood life was rich and happy. Du You's Fanchuan villa is located in the south of Chang'an City. The land has the beauty of forest pavilions and deep plants and trees. Du Mu often played in the garden. After his grandfather and father died one after another, his family became increasingly poor.
In the second year of Mu Zong's Changqing reign (822), when Du Mu was 20 years old, he was already well versed in classics and history, and was especially focused on fighting chaos and military affairs. At the age of 23, he wrote "Ode to Afang Palace". In the second year of Emperor Wenzong's reign (828), he passed the imperial examination at the age of 26.
In the same year, he passed the examination of Xianliangfangzhengyanjijijian. He was awarded the title of School Secretary of Hongwen Hall and Cao, the guard of Zuowu, joined the army. In winter, he went to Jiangxi to serve as the observation envoy Shen, and later followed him to Xuanshe to serve as the observation envoy and serve as a staff member.
In the seventh year of Yamato (833), Huainan Jiedu envoy Niu Sengru was promoted to an official and transferred to the position of secretary. He lived in Yangzhou and was quite fond of banquets and travels. In the ninth year of Yamato, he served as the supervisory censor and was in charge of the Eastern Capital. In the second year of Kaicheng's reign, he entered Xuanhui to observe the envoy Cui Danmu and trained as a judge for the regiment.
Xuan Guan Zuo Bu Que, compiled by the History Museum, and Yuan Wai Lang of the Ministry of Food and Beverage. In the second year of Wuzong Huichang's reign (842), he became the governor of Huangzhou. Later he served as governor of Chizhou and Muzhou. Promote advantages and eliminate disadvantages for politics, and care about the people.
In the second year of Dazhong reign of Emperor Xuanzong (848), with the help of Prime Minister Zhou Chi, he became a member of the Department of Xun, Wai Lang, a compiler of the History Museum, and was transferred to the Ministry of Civil Service, Wai Lang. In the fourth year of Dazhong's reign, he became the governor of Huzhou. The following year, he was called to Beijing to serve as a doctor in the imperial examination and to know how to make imperial edicts. In the third year, he moved to Shushe.
Died in Chang'an at the end of the year at the age of fifty. He is the author of "Collected Works of Fan Chuan". When Du Mu was serving as secretary under the Xuanzhou dynasty, he heard that there were so many beauties in Huzhou, so he went to Huzhou to visit. Cui Jun, the governor of Huzhou, knew the name of Du Mu's poems and entertained him warmly.
He summoned all the famous prostitutes in the state for Du to choose.
But Du Mu looked at it again and again, and said with some regret: "It's beautiful! But it's not perfect enough." He added, "I hope to hold a boat racing entertainment event on the riverside, so that everyone in Huzhou can come and watch it. .
When the time comes, I will walk slowly among the crowd, searching carefully, hoping that I may be able to find the person I like. " In accordance with Du Mu's wishes, the governor of Huzhou held such a race. .
On that day, there were dense crowds of people watching on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but Du Mu spent the whole day until evening, but could not find anyone he liked. The boat was about to be docked. Among the crowd, there was an old country woman leading a girl, about ten years old.
Du Mu looked at it for a long time and said excitedly: "This girl is really beautiful, the previous ones are just empty!" He took the mother and daughter to the boat to talk. Both mother and daughter were scared.
Du Mu said: "I am not marrying her right away, but I just want to set a date for the wedding." The old woman said: "What should I do if I break my promise in the future?"
Du Mu said: "In less than ten years, I will definitely come here to be the county guard. If I don't come in ten years, I will marry someone else as you wish." The girl's mother agreed. Du Mu then gave him a valuable betrothal gift.