Those who seek hermitage will not find them. Original text:
Panasonic asked the boy, saying that the teacher was going to collect medicine.
Only in this mountain, I don’t know where the clouds are.
"He Who Seeks Hermitage Will Not Meet" is a work by Jia Dao, a poet monk in the Tang Dynasty. The first sentence of this poem is about a searcher asking a boy, and the last three sentences are all the boy's answers. The poet uses the method of combining questions and answers to vividly describe the anxiety of searching but not meeting. In the poem, the white clouds are used to compare the nobility of the hermit, and the green pine trees are used to describe the character of the hermit. The poem describes the search and failure of encountering the hermit, which further highlights the seeker's admiration for the hermit. The whole poem's words are clear and simple, the words are complex and the writing is concise, the emotions are deep and meaningful, and the descriptions are pure and simple. It is a rare work with concise words and rich meaning. This little poem tells a very rich story through a short question-and-answer description of the situation. The poem contains descriptions of environment, characters, language, storylines, and emotional expressions beyond words, and is extremely rich in content.