Wang Ji

Famous sentence: cicada makes the forest quiet, but Tonamiyama is more secluded

Guide reading

Ji Wang,? -About 547) was born in Langya City (now north of Linyi County, Shandong Province). Poets in the Southern and Northern Dynasties lived in the Southern Dynasties and Qi Liang. I am studious and talented, and I envy Xie Lingyun for writing poems. Ru ruo Xi is the most famous work in his landscape poems.

This poem was written in about 525. At this time, Wang Ji joined the army and served as the consultant of Liang Wudi's seventh son, Wang Xiangdong Xiaoyi (later Emperor Liang Yuan), and had the opportunity to visit Ruoyuexi, a scenic spot in Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). He was frustrated all his life, mostly making guest appearances in the aides of princes and dignitaries. In his later years, he was addicted to alcohol and finished his life journey in depression.

Original poem

What's a general? 2. Empty water flows forever.

Yin Xia gave birth to a distant cave ③, while Yang Jing returned to ④.

The cicadas are singing, and the Woods are particularly quiet; The singing of birds in the mountains is more beautiful than usual.

This place has given me a hermit's heart. I'm tired of my official career but I'm not retired and sad.

To annotate ...

This article is about what Pan saw and felt. Ruoyexi: At the foot of Nanruoye Mountain in Shaoxing County, Zhejiang Province. ② Tour huánɡ: Ancient wooden boat. General: The way the ship moves is unimpeded. ③ headland (xiù): mountain. 4 sunny scenery: sun shadow.

Translate poetry

Wooden boats float on the mirror-like water,

Empty streams and boats are swaying.

Changing clouds rise from distant mountains,

The shadow of the sun is chasing the current.

The sound of cicadas makes the forest seem quieter.

The chirping of birds makes the mountains quieter.

Facing the beautiful scenery here, I thought about it.

I'm sorry why I have been tired for so long.

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Ruoye Creek is located at the foot of Ruoye Mountain in Huiji, with beautiful scenery, attracting countless poets to go boating. This poem is the most famous poem of Wang Ji, and it was written because boating in Ruoyuexi touched homesickness.

There are two sentences at the beginning of the poem: "Nothing is vulgar, and the water is empty." The poet took a boat to play in the stream, and the blue sky was reflected in the mirror-like stream, outlining a quiet and far-reaching natural picture. Write full of joy with a word "he" and the lonely state of "empty water" with a word "leisurely", which is very affectionate. The third and fourth sentences, "Yin Xia was born in a remote cave, and the sunny days flowed back", describe the scenery seen when overlooking the distant mountains. Poets use the word "life" to write clouds, giving them dynamics; Write the sun with a word "one by one", as if the sun is deliberately chasing a clear and tortuous stream. Write lifeless clouds and sunshine in a poetic way. Five or six sentences, "cicadas make the forest quiet, and the sound palace mountain is quieter", express the quietness of the mountain forest in a dynamic and quiet way. "Cicada singing" and "bird singing" make the silence over Ruoye mountain forest deeper. Here, the stillness of hearing is based on the stillness of vision, and stillness is set in motion. They are closely connected with each other, and one picture is connected with another. The excellent description of the dynamics has pushed the quietness of Ruoyexi to the extreme. Facing the beautiful scenery of nymphs, the poet in the last two sentences can't help but get tired of official travel and have the meaning of seclusion. The extremely quiet natural scenery and the extremely restless inner world form a huge contrast here.

This poem creates a very quiet and beautiful artistic conception, and the scenery and lyricism are highly integrated. In the last four short poems "Twenty Crossing", the poet completed the transformation from the realm without me to the realm with me, which fully embodied the philosophy of quiet and vivid, joys and sorrows, and produced strong artistic shock and appeal. The phrase "cicada makes the forest quiet, and the sound palace mountain is more secluded" is a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages and is known as "the only one outside the text".