Seeking truth and straying into Penglai Island, the fragrant wind does not move the pine flowers.
Where didn't Cai Zhi return? No one swept the white clouds everywhere.
2. Translation
Ask the immortal, but come to Penglai fairy island, where the fragrance is everywhere and the pine blossoms fall.
Where did the fairy go? Why haven't you come back? Fortunately, no one has cleaned up the white clouds everywhere.
Step 3 take notes
Hermit: Hermit, a person who left the world and returned to nature, here refers to the so-called immortal.
Truth: the immortal. Taoism says that the person who cultivates his nature or his truth is the real person. Penglai: Also known as Penghu. One of the three sacred mountains inhabited by immortals in the Bohai Sea in myth.
Pine flower: the flower of a pine tree. Old: aging, extended to the aging of flowers, that is, withering.
Caizhi: Caizhi grass. In ancient times, Cao Zhi was regarded as a sacred grass, which made it immortal. Therefore, "picking Cao Zhi" often refers to seeking immortality or seclusion, which refers to the immortal the author is looking for.
Step 4 enjoy
In the Tang Dynasty, there were several poems with the theme of seeking seclusion. Jia Dao's suicide note is the most admired by later generations. The artistic conception of Ye Wei's four-line poem is similar to Jia's poem "I asked your students, under a pine tree", and he replied, "My teacher, go to collect herbs". However, through these clouds, how can I know which corner of the mountain it is facing? People don't know who the hermit is in the title of the poem. Ye Wei himself was a famous hermit in the early Song Dynasty. He had contacts with many hermits, which reflected this aspect of the poet's life. He wrote that hermits looked for each other but never met each other. Compared with Jia Dao's poems, although the topic is the same, the internal meaning is obviously different. In Jia Dao's poem, the hermit asks, "How can I tell, through all these clouds?" But, after all, "but to which corner of the mountain" still has a goal. The hermit in this poem is more wandering and elusive.