Bai Juyi
Famous sentence: A few early warblers compete to warm the trees, whose new swallow pecks at the spring mud.
Guide reading
Bai Juyi was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou in July of the second year of Changqing (822), and Bao Liyuan was appointed as the secretariat of Suzhou in March of the year of 825. This poem, selected from Volume 20 of Evergreen Collection, is a seven-character quatrain with unique scenery.
Qiantang Lake is the West Lake in Hangzhou, where the climate is pleasant, the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the architectural landscape is uneven. It has been a tourist attraction since the Tang Dynasty.
Original poem
Gushan Temple is located in the north of Jiating West, with a flat water level and a low cloud foot.
Several early warblers compete for warm trees, and their new swallows peck at the soil in spring.
Flowers are more and more attractive, and shallow grass can be without horseshoes.
My favorite lake is less than 7 eastbound, and the white sand embankment under the shade of Populus davidiana is 8.
To annotate ...
① Gushan Temple: A temple on Gushan Mountain in Hangzhou. The lonely mountain is between Houhu Lake and Waihu Lake, with unique peaks and beautiful scenery. Jia Ting: During the Zhenyuan period of the Tang Dynasty (785-804), Jia Quan, the secretariat of Hangzhou, built a pavilion in the West Lake, named "Jia Gong Pavilion". It was soon abandoned. ② Initial leveling of water surface: The lake is just as flat as the dam, that is, the spring water is born. Yunjiao: Wandering is not necessarily like a cloud. "Low cloud feet" refers to overlapping clouds, which are very low and connected to the lake. 3 warbler: oriole. Warm tree: a sunny tree. 4 pecking: Birds tap and clamp things with their mouths. ⑤ Miscellaneous flowers: the appearance of blooming and colorful flowers. ⑥ No (mǐ): Cover up. ⑦ Insufficient: Not enough. (8) Baishadi: Bai Causeway. A broken bridge levee, also known as Shijintang, is located outside the west gate of Hangzhou, and reaches Gushan along the southwest line of the levee. In spring, peaches and willows fill the embankment and the scenery is beautiful.
Translate poetry
The scenery outside Jiagong Pavilion in the north of Gushan Temple is particularly beautiful.
The overlapping clouds on Pinghu Lake are too low.
There are orioles flying early everywhere, struggling to live in sunny trees.
I don't know which new swallow is busy spitting and pecking at spring mud.
Colorful flowers confuse people's eyes,
Shallow grass covered the horseshoe just now.
My favorite thing is to take a walk on the east bank of the lake and enjoy the scenery.
Look at the green willows on the white sand bank.
Make an appreciative comment
This is a famous landscape poem by Bai Juyi, which was written when Bai Juyi was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou. Poetry vividly depicts the beautiful scenery that the poet saw when he walked around the West Lake in early spring, and the vitality of everything in the spring bath, expressing the joy and praise of the poet when he was intoxicated with this beautiful scenery.
The opening of the poem focuses on the big picture and always takes the lake as the center. Write the location in the first sentence and the view in the second sentence. "The water surface is flat" and the white clouds are low, which depicts the typical water state and natural capacity while walking along the Chunhu Lake in the south of the Yangtze River, and constitutes a quiet ink painting of the West Lake. In the middle, there are two couplets that describe in detail what the West Lake saw during its spring outing: "Early warblers fight for trees", "New swallows peck at mud", "Flowers fall unseen" and "grass without horseshoes", which are the most typical scenes in early spring. Use "early", "new", "struggle" and "peck" to express Yingying's new arrival; Use "chaos", "shallowness", "gradual desire" and "talent" to describe the thriving trend of flowers and plants. The poets in the late League love the beach in the east of the lake and can win the whole lake. They used "lack of lines" to collect the whole poem, pointing out that the scenery of the West Lake is beautiful, the poet is unfinished, and the readers are impressed after reading it.
This poem is like a short and pithy travel note about mountains and rivers. From Gushan and Jiating to Hudong and Bai Causeway, I enjoyed the scenery of singing and dancing and reveled in the flowers and birds. Finally, I walked along the willow trees under the green forest in Baishadi, and I was reluctant to leave step by step. The whole poem has a tight structure, strict meter, neat antithesis, fluent language, vivid nature, unique composition and vivid description. This is a famous poem describing the scenery of the West Lake, which has been circulated for generations.