What is the explanation of "looking for things outside" in Luo Shi's "looking back at the lower level and looking for things outside"

Source: Dondero's Xia Hangke and Xia Shaofu. This poem expresses the author's feelings of being tired of worldly affairs, loving nature and longing for seclusion. It highlights the author's yearning for a free and leisurely life and his pursuit of noble and loyal character.

Original text:

Go back to Xiacen and look for things outside.

The blue path is fragrant, and the Huai court falls into the dark gold.

The valley is quiet and windy, and the mountains are empty and the moon is deep.

I'm tired of sending cages, but I'm relieved.

Translation:

Sunset sets from the mountain, pursuing a life beyond things, playing and searching.

The path covered with orchids is full of fragrance; The small courtyard with locust trees is full of mottled shadows of the sunset.

The valley is quiet and empty, and I think the wind is particularly strong and the moonlight is particularly bright.

All the fatigue and pain bound by officialdom were sent away, leaving only the noble heart of yearning for nature.

The poem "Extended Information" has a clear opening theme and always writes about the mountains downstream of the moonlit night. As the sun sets, the author and Xia Shaofu use their spare time to find a secluded place in the mountains. Parallel couplets describe the fragrance of mountain roads and flowers and trees in the mountains, neck couplets describe the deep silence in the mountains, and the scenery described in the second and third couplets is very delicate, which is particularly helpful for antithesis.

The afterglow of the sunset seems to be dribs and drabs of gold. Yu Pei is scattered in deep blue paths and courtyards, empty mountains and valleys, lonely and silent, only deep moonlight accompanied by bursts of mountain wind; The first three parts describe what you saw and heard in the mountains, such as "Blue Path", "Huaiting", "Deep Valley" and "Empty Mountain". Plus "Youpei", "Hidden Gold", "Wind" and "Moonlight", an evening mountain scenery is pure, quiet, empty, elegant and beautiful.

Faced with such pleasant mountain scenery, the poet finally joined Zhang Xianzhi, and could not help but express his feelings of breaking free from the cage and leaving the mountains, which seemed appropriate and logical. "Being in a cage for a long time" (Tao Yuanming's "Being in a cage for a long time") shows his boredom with officialdom and secular life, and "Being in your heart" (Tao Yuanming's "Returning to Nature") shows his love for nature and yearning for secluded life, reveals his "poetic heart" and highlights his main theme.

Therefore, the whole poem implicitly expresses the poet's desire to stay away from the "cage" (worldly bondage) and get close to "Songgui" (beautiful nature) in creating a strange artistic conception of the lonely night in the mountains, which shows his feelings of world-weariness, love for nature and pursuit of nobleness.

About the author: Luo, Ziyou, Han nationality, born in Yiwu, Wuzhou (now Yiwu, Zhejiang), was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. In the emperor's Yonghui, Li, the king of Taoism, was a master of martial arts and Chang 'an. In the third year of Yifeng (678), she became a counselor, was imprisoned for something, and was pardoned the following year. In the second year (680), except Linhai Cheng, he resigned in frustration.

In the first year of Guangzhai (684), Xu Jingye started a crusade against Wu Zetian, and Robin wrote Xu Jingye from Wu Zhao for him. An election campaign listed the crimes of Wuhou, which was very touching. After the defeat, Wang's whereabouts were unknown, or he was killed by the rebels or fled into an empty door.