A high bridge appeared on the clouds and asked the fishing boats in the rocks.
Peach blossoms follow the running water all day. Where is the cave in Qingxi?
A landscape poem borrowed from the artistic conception of Tao Qian Peach Blossom Garden, which was created by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty during Tianbao. At this time, the Tang dynasty has turned from prosperity to decline. When Zhang Xu wrote this poem, his mood was quite similar to that of Tao Yuanming when he wrote Peach Blossom Garden.
Vernacular translation
A Gao Qiao appeared across the clouds and asked about the fishing boat on the west side of the rock.
Peach blossoms flow all day. Which side of Qingxi is the entrance of Taoyuan Cave?
Judge Heng Tang (Sun Zhu), editor of Three Hundred Tang Poems in Qing Dynasty, commented on this poem and said, "Four sentences are worth a peach blossom garden.
Literary appreciation
This poem expresses the author's longing for a paradise and the pursuit of a better life through the description of the beautiful scenery of Taohuaxi and the inquiry of fishermen.
There are many peach forests on both sides of Taohua River. In late spring, there are colorful English waterfalls and gurgling streams here. According to legend, Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is located here. The Peach Blossom Creek described by Zhang Xu does not necessarily mean here, but implicitly uses its artistic conception. This poem is graceful in conception, profound in taste, profound in artistic conception, rich in painting and intriguing.
"The faint flying bridge is separated by wild smoke", and I began to write a vision: mountains and valleys, misty clouds; Looking through the clouds, the long bridge across the mountain stream is flickering, as if nothing had happened, as if flying in the void. How deep and mysterious this realm is, it is like entering a fairyland. Here, the static bridge contrasts with the floating wild smoke: the wild smoke makes the bridge static and moving, illusory and flying in the air; The bridge turns wild smoke into silence, just like hanging a gauze curtain. Looking at the bridge through this curtain makes people feel a kind of hazy beauty. The word "ge" makes these two kinds of scenery set each other off and become an artistic whole; The word "ge" also implies that the poet is watching from a distance. If he stands by the bridge, he won't feel "grid".
Then draw a close-up Nearby, rocks are exposed in the water, such as islands (rocks); On the fallen stream, there are fishing boats swaying gently, and the scenery is beautiful. "Ask the fishing boat on the west side of the Rocky Mountain", a word "ask", is also used by poets, so that readers can see the beauty of mountains and rivers and the modality of characters from this landscape painting. The poet stood by the ancient Rocky Mountain and looked at the endless peach petals and fishing boats drifting on the stream. In a trance, he seems to regard the fisherman in front of him as a Wuling fisherman who once entered the Peach Blossom Garden. The word "ask" blurted out.
The word "ask the fishing boat" vividly shows this longing modality. Three or four sentences are for fishermen: but seeing peach petals floating out with Qingxi, I don't know where Qingxi is an ideal paradise cave. Here, the beauty of Taoyuandong is written in vain from the question, and the poet's desire to find it is also euphemistically and implicitly revealed from the question.
Seven-character quatrains are short. To achieve lasting charm and profound artistic conception, we should not only pay attention to refining words and breaking sentences, but also require ingenious conception. Zhang Xu, as a master of the four wonders in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, was very good at conceiving. This poem is written from far to near and from the front, and then it is transported from reality to virtuality by asking questions. The conceptual layout is quite novel and ingenious. The author's brushwork is light and free, he does not describe the scenery in a complicated way, does not spread bright and colorful colors, and uses the artistic conception of Peach Blossom Garden ethereally and naturally, thus creating a profound realm full of painting.