Looking at Lushan Waterfall was written by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. The original text is as follows:
The purple mist is illuminated by sunlight, and the waterfall hangs in front of the mountain.
On the high cliff, it seems to be thousands of feet high, which makes people think that the Milky Way has fallen from heaven to earth.
The translation is as follows:
The sun shines on the incense burner peak, producing purple smoke. Seen from a distance, the waterfall hangs in front of the mountain like a long river.
As if three thousands of feet waters were running down, did the Milky Way descend from the cliff for nine days?
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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 in the 13th year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (725). 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" in Selected Poems of Li Bai, Mr. Zhan Ai thinks that the first five ancient poems were written by Li Bai before he entered Chang 'an in Kaiyuan years.
works appreciation
The incense burner in the poem, that is, the incense burner peak mentioned at the beginning of the poem, "in the northwest of Lushan Mountain, its peak is round, and the clouds gather and disperse, like Boshan incense burner" (music history "Taiping Huan Ji"). But when it comes to the poet Li Bai's pen, it becomes another scene: an indomitable incense burner, clouds of white smoke rising slowly in Ran Ran, ethereal between the green mountains and the blue sky, and turned into a purple cloud under the irradiation of the red sun.
This not only makes the incense burner peak more beautiful, but also romantic, creating an unusual background for the unusual waterfall. Then the poet turned his eyes to the waterfall on the mountain wall. "Before the waterfall hangs over the river", the first four words are the key points. "Hanging in front of the river" is the first image of "looking", and the waterfall is like a huge white practice hanging high between mountains and rivers.
The word "hanging" is wonderful. It turns from dynamic to static, vividly showing the image of pouring waterfalls in the first poem of Yuanwang. "Brave!" It is this "nature" that can "hang" the giant, so the word "hanging" also contains the poet's praise for the magical power of nature. The third sentence also describes the dynamics of the waterfall.
"Flying three thousands of feet", stroke by stroke, every word is forceful. The word "fly" vividly depicts the scene of the waterfall spewing out; "Straight down" not only describes the steep slope of the mountain, but also indicates the urgency of the water flow. The sky is falling and unstoppable. However, the poet was not satisfied enough, and wrote another sentence, "It is suspected that the Milky Way has set for nine days". He really wants to fall from the sky and surprise his soul.
"Doubt is" is worth pondering. The poet clearly said it in a trance, and the readers know that it is not, but they all think that only in this way can it be more vivid and true. The secret lies in the image that has been bred in the poet's previous description. The towering incense burner peak is hidden in the clouds. Looking at the waterfall in the distance is like flying down from the clouds and falling in the sky, which naturally associates with a galaxy falling from the sky.
It can be seen that although the metaphor of "doubt is the milky way for nine days" is strange, it does not appear out of thin air in the poem, but naturally emerges from the portrayal of the image.
It is exaggerated and natural, novel and true, thus arousing the resonance of the whole article, making the whole image more colorful, magnificent and magnificent, which not only left a deep impression on people, but also gave people room for imagination, showing Li Bai's artistic style of "Wan Li fell, but the trend was still strong at the end".
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