What did the taro man ask when he stayed across the water?
If you want to stay somewhere, you can ask the woodcutter.
1. Source
This sentence comes from "Zhongnan Mountain", the original text: Taiyi is close to the capital of heaven, with mountains and seas connected. The white clouds look back and merge, and the green mist comes in to see nothing. The peaks in the field change, and the clouds and clearings are different. If you want to stay somewhere, ask the woodcutter across the water.
2. Translation
The majestic Taiyi Mountain is close to Chang'an City, and the mountains wind together all the way to the seaside. The white clouds merge into one when looking back, and the green mist disappears into the mountains in confusion. The main central peak separates Zhongnan from east to west, and the valleys between the mountains are very different and changeable. I wanted to find a home in the mountains to stay, so I asked the woodcutter across the water if it would be convenient.
3. Appreciation
Wang Wei's poems have been said since ancient times that "poems are like paintings". Appreciating his poems is like appreciating Chinese paintings. Fresh and elegant; reading his poems is like traveling thousands of miles across China, magnificent and majestic. Every sentence, every word, every bit in the poem is full of the poet's lofty sentiments. "Zhongnan Mountain" is one of the highlights of Wang Wei's landscape poetry.
Taiyi is close to the capital of heaven, from the mountains to the sea. "The first couplet says that the towering Zhongnan Mountain reaches into the sky, close to the capital of the Emperor of Heaven. The endless mountains extend to the distant seashore.
The first couplet describes the distant view of Zhongnan Mountain, borrowing The general outline of Zhongnan Mountain is outlined in an exaggerated way. This general outline can only be understood from a distance, not from a closer look.
Taiyi is the final scene. Another name for Nanshan. Although Zhongnan is high, it is far away from the sky. To say that it is "near the capital" is of course an artistic exaggeration. But this is a distant view. When looking at Zhongnan from the ground, its peak is indeed connected to the sky, so it is said that it is "near the sky". "Near Tiandu" is an exaggeration to describe reality. Zhongnan Shanxi stretches from Tianshui, Gansu, to Shaanxian County, Henan in the east, far from the Haiyu.
It is certainly not true to say that it is "close to the Haiyu". How is it true to say that it is connected to other mountains all the way to the sea corner? However, this is a distant view. Looking from Chang'an to Zhongnan, you can't see the end in the west and the end in the east. The distant view of Zhongnan, although exaggerated, becomes more and more real.
The white clouds look back and the blue mist enters the sky. , the white clouds formed a vast expanse behind me. I walked towards the misty blue mist, but it was completely gone.