Meng Haoran's famous sentence describing Dongting Lake

Meng Haoran wrote the classic sentence "Yun Qi is foggy and Yueyang is trapped" in Dongting Lake.

A letter from Dongting Lake to Prime Minister Zhang.

Meng Haoran [Tang Dynasty]

The autumn water rises and almost blends with the shore, mixing water and sky with the sky.

Ozawa's water vapor transpiration on the cloud soil is white, and the waves seem to shake the whole Yueyang.

I'm going to cross the water to find a boat and paddle. It's a shame to return home in the sacred age.

Sitting around watching other people's hard river fishing can only envy the fish caught in the fish.

Meng Haoran's works have wonderful descriptions of mountains and rivers, and these two sentences can be said to be his most wonderful poems describing mountains and rivers. Yunmeng Ozawa's steam transpiration is in vain, and the stormy waves seem to shake Yueyang City. Exaggeration is used in poetry, and he also shows his ambition.

"I want to cross the river, but I can't find a boat. I'm more leisure than you politicians. I'm really ashamed." These two sentences are the core of this ancient poem and the poet is eager to express it. In the face of the vast lake, the poet feels that he is still a piece of cloth today, and he wants to find his own way but no one introduces him, just like crossing the lake without a boat. "I am more ashamed to be idle than you politicians" means that in this era of "enlightened" peace and prosperity, I am not willing to be idle and want to do something. These two sentences are a formal confession to Prime Minister Zhang, indicating that although he is a hermit at present, he is unwilling to do so. He still yearns for the official position, but he still can't find a way.

"Just as I sit here and watch a fisherman throw, like a fish" actually refers to Meng Haoran's retreat. "Angler" refers to Prime Minister Zhang. These last two sentences mean: Mr. Zhang, who is in power, I admire you for coming out to preside over state affairs, but as an opposition person, I can't stay with you and work for you, so I can only admire you in vain.