Excerpt from the original:
Guilin's landscape is the best in the world, jade Qing.
Morale is not inspiring, and the literary field is like a battlefield.
Translation:
Guilin's landscape is the best in the world, with peaks like the hairpin of jasper and rivers like the belt of green radish, among which the artistic conception is far-reaching and rich, which is worth savoring.
The ambition of literati for fame and fortune is better than the morale of soldiers, and the contest in the literary field is as fierce as the battlefield.
It can also be seen from this poem that this famous saying originally came from an imperial examination poem. It can be seen that as early as the Song Dynasty, China's values of seeking fame in the imperial examination had been deeply rooted in Guilin.
The poems on Wang's desk are full of vigor and vitality, and he is deeply impressed by the performers. A man named Zhang Ciliang carved these two poems of Wang on Guanyin Rock at the southern foot of Duxiufeng.
Reading the whole poem with expanded materials, the author's original intention is not to praise Guilin's landscape, but to hope that the students will make further progress in their studies and make themselves as beautiful as Guilin's landscape in their studies. This famous saying may be Wang's original creation, but it is also handy to quote other people's sentences. In short, it is a seamless application, which embodies the author's talent for writing poems.
Shortly after Wang wrote this poem, Xing 'an county magistrate indulged his son and killed a county official. As a local official, Wang enforced the law impartially, and sent the criminals to the neighboring road for confession, so he offended Xing 'an county magistrate and violated the hidden rules of officialdom, and was falsely accused of dismissing the official.
Later, although the case was found out and Wang was rehabilitated, there was no official to do, and he was old. He was sent by the imperial court to Wuyishan, Fujian Province as a temple and was in charge of worship, so he retired to the second line and died there.
Perhaps because Wang was dismissed from office, the parties deliberately covered the stone carving above Yueyan with mud in order to clear the relationship; Perhaps it has been a long time, and the rainwater seeping from the cliff wall is mixed with the sediment between the rocks and covered on the stone carving. In short, Wang's poems, carved on Du Xiufeng's reading rock, soon disappeared and even were forgotten.
Fortunately, the influence of famous sayings is amazing. The poems written by Wang at the banquet were taken to Lin 'an, the capital city, by the students at the banquet, and spread in all directions from Lin 'an. Over time, coupled with the different cultural upbringing and artistic taste of the Acura, the whole poem was omitted or forgotten by the Acura, leaving only the phrase "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" which has been circulated for thousands of years.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang (Ningzong in the Southern Song Dynasty was raised in Guangnan West Road)