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What does it mean that the winding orchids are quiet and the rivers are blooming but not flowing?
It means: the storm that can blow down the mountain is still, while the river is endless but stagnant.

This sentence comes from Seng Zhao's Nothing Moves.

Original: The dancing orchid is always quiet, the rivers compete for eyes but don't flow, the wild horses float, and the sun and the moon are endless.

Storms that can blow mountains down are still, while rivers and streams are still. The fog in the mountains was stirred by the wind, but nothing happened. The sun and the moon rotate in the sky, but they don't change.

Brief introduction of the author

Seng Zhao was a famous Buddhist scholar and monk in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China, and he was also a protege of Kumarajiva, a Buddhist translator. He is one of the "Four Sages" or "Ten Philosophers" under Rushmen, and is known as "Famen Dragon Elephant" and "the first person to solve the void". In Seng Zhao's view, the cracked giant peak is static; There is no turbulence in the running river, the floating dust does not move, and the sun and the moon never cruise. Things in the world seem to be spinning fast there, but in fact they haven't changed.