What is the meaning of misty rain in the 480 Temple in the Southern Dynasties?

"Four hundred and eighty halls in the southern dynasties, how many towers are misty and rainy." The meaning of this poem is: how many ancient temples left over from the Southern Dynasties are now shrouded in this misty rain.

Where does this poem come from? -Tang Du Mu's Spring in the South of the Yangtze River

The original work is like this:

Jiangnan, the sound of green and red flowers, the waterside village in the foothills.

More than 480 ancient temples were left in the Southern Dynasties, and countless pagodas were shrouded in wind and rain.

Translated into vernacular Chinese, it is like this:

The vast south of the Yangtze River is full of singing and dancing, green trees and red flowers set each other off, and wine flags are flying everywhere at the foot of the water town.

Many ancient temples left over from the Southern Dynasties are now shrouded in this misty rain.

Here are some important words, please explain them separately:

Ti Ying: That is the language of Yan.

Guo: Outer city. This refers to the town.

Wine flag: a small flag hung in front of the door as a sign of a hotel.

Southern Dynasties: refers to the regimes of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen that successively confronted the Northern Dynasties.

Temple 480: The emperors and bureaucrats of the Southern Dynasties built Buddhist temples in Beijing (now Nanjing). The 480 Temple mentioned here is an imaginary number.

Loutai: pavilions and pavilions. This refers to the temple architecture.

Misty rain: drizzle, like smoke and fog.

What is the background of the author's writing this poem?

In the late Tang Dynasty, when Du Mu lived, the Tang Dynasty, as a mansion, was on the verge of collapse, and the regime of the buffer region, the eunuch's authoritarian power and the dispute between Niu and Li were eroding the giant's body bit by bit.

On the other hand, after Xian Zong came to power, he was fascinated by his achievements in Pinghuaixi and other places and started the dream of eternal life in the Spring and Autumn Period. He was so worried about Buddhism that Han Yu went to the platform of remonstrating Buddha's bones and almost lost his life. After Xianzong was killed by eunuchs, Mu Zong, Jing Zong, Wenzong and others preached Buddhism as usual, the number of monks and nuns kept rising, and the temple economy kept developing, which greatly weakened the strength of the government and increased the burden on the country.

When Du Mu came to Jiangnan (Jiangyin, Jiangsu) this year, he couldn't help thinking of the piety of the Southern Dynasties, especially the Liang Dynasty. In the end, there was nothing. Not only did he not seek immortality, but he harmed the country and the people by mistake. It is not only a tribute and nostalgia for history, but also a gentle exhortation to the rulers of the Tang Dynasty. Later, Wu Zong made peace and destroyed Buddha, which eased the contradiction to some extent.

This is a landscape poem with a good reputation. A small space paints a broad picture. It is not aimed at a specific place, but at the unique scenery of the whole south of the Yangtze River, so it is named "Spring in the South of the Yangtze River".

Knowing the writing background, we can appreciate this poem better:

This song "Jiangnan Spring" has enjoyed a high reputation for thousands of years. The poem not only depicts the beautiful spring scenery in Jiangnan, but also reproduces the vast balcony scenery in Jiangnan, making the scenery in Jiangnan more magical and confusing. Charming Jiangnan, moved by the poet's brilliant pen, is even more exciting. The four sentences in this poem are all scenery words. There are many images and scenery, including plants and animals, which are vivid and colorful, and the scenery is also far and near, which combines motion and static and has its own characteristics. With light words and extremely general language, the whole poem depicts a vivid, colorful and verve picture of spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, presenting a profound and beautiful artistic conception and expressing a series of subtle and profound feelings, which has enjoyed a high reputation for thousands of years.

Du Mu is especially good at depicting beautiful and moving pictures with just four sentences and twenty-eight characters, presenting profound and beautiful artistic conception, expressing implicit and profound feelings, and giving people the enjoyment of beauty and the enlightenment of thinking. "Jiangnan Spring" reflects that the aesthetics in China's poems and paintings are beyond time and space, indifferent and free and easy, with the thought of "epiphany" of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and more poetic feelings of nostalgia, seclusion and freehand brushwork.