Wang Anshi’s climb to Feilai Peak: Feilai Mountain’s Qianxun Pagoda, where you can hear the rooster crow and see the sun rise. Don't be afraid of the floating clouds covering your eyes, because you are at the highest level.
1. Translation of Ancient Poems
It is said that from the very high tower of Feilai Peak, you can see the rising sun when the rooster crows.
I am not afraid that the clouds will block my sight, just because I am at the top now.
2. Translation of ancient poems
Climb the tall tower at Feilai Peak. I heard that you can see the rising sun rising here every day when the rooster crows.
I am not afraid of layers of clouds blocking my distant view because I am standing on the highest level of Feilai Peak.
3. Explanation
1. Feilai Mountain: One is "Feilai Peak", and there are two: one is Linshan outside Shaoxing, Zhejiang. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there was a Yingtian Pagoda among them. Legend has it that this peak flew from Dongwu County, Langya County, hence the name Feilai Peak. One is said to be in front of Lingyin Temple in West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang today.
2. Qianxun Tower: A very, very tall tower. Xun, an ancient unit of length, eight feet was Xun.
3. Hear and speak: hear and hear.
4. Floating clouds: clouds floating in the mountains. Look at the eyes: sight.
5. Self-condition: When it comes to "only fate", it is naturally because. Yuan: Because.
4. Introduction to the author
Wang Anshi (1021 to 1086) was an outstanding politician, thinker, writer, and reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty. A native of Linchuan, Fuzhou (now west of Fuzhou, Jiangxi).
His courtesy name is Jiefu, his later nickname is Banshan, and his nickname is Badger Lang. He is granted the title of Duke of Jing, and is known as King Jing Gong and Mr. Linchuan in the world. One of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, he was hailed by Lenin as "China's eleventh century reformer".
He was born in a family of small officials. In 1042 AD (the second year of Qingli), he ranked fourth in the Jinshi list of Yangzhen. He successively served as an official in Huainan judge, Yinxian county magistrate, Shuzhou Tongjian, Changzhou magistrate, Tidian Jiangdong prison and other places.