Talk about philosophical truth "but you can broaden your horizons by walking up a flight of stairs for 300 miles".

Wang Zhihuan

The white sun shines on the mountains,

The Yellow River flows into the sea.

But you expanded your horizons by 300 miles,

Walk up a flight of stairs.

[Notes]

1. Stork Tower: The former site is in Yongji County, Shanxi Province. The building is three stories high, with Zhongtiao Mountain in front and the Yellow River at the bottom. Legend has it that storks often inhabit here, hence the name.

2. Day: the sun.

3. rely on: rely on. The sun sets near the mountains.

4. Poverty: exhaustion.

Rhyme translation:

The sunset slowly sank to the west hill,

The surging Yellow River flows to the East China Sea.

If you want to see the scenery thousands of miles away,

Then you have to climb a higher tower.

[Brief analysis]

The extraordinary ambition of the poet in this poem reflects the enterprising spirit of the people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Write what you see in the first two sentences. The Mountain Covers the Day is about vision and mountains. The author stood on the stork tower and looked west, only to see the vast sea of clouds and empty mountains. As the clouds covered the fog, the sun turned white and set beside the peak. "And the loss of the ocean in Huang Jinhe" was written about close range and water. Downstairs, the Yellow River flows into the sea. These two sentences are magnificent, magnificent, and exciting to read.

Write the last two sentences. "But you have broadened your horizons by three hundred miles", a poet's endless desire to explore, wants to see further and see where his eyesight can reach. The only way is to stand higher and "walk up a flight of stairs". "A thousand miles" and "the first floor" are imaginary numbers, which are both vertical and horizontal spaces in the poet's imagination. The words "to be poor" and "to be better" contain many hopes and longings. These two poems, which have been told through the ages, vividly imply a philosophy: only by climbing high can you see far; If you look far, you must climb high.

This poem consists of two very concise antitheses. In the first two sentences, the nouns "daytime" and "Yellow River" are relative, the colors "white" and "yellow" are relative, and the verbs "one" and "ru" are relative. The last two sentences are the same, which constitutes a formal perfection.

Stork Tower, formerly located in Yongji County, Shanxi Province, was washed away by the flood on a hill of the Yellow River. Shen Kuo's "Meng Qian Bi Tan" records: "The stork has three floors, and the middle section (mountain name) overlooks the river." It can be seen that it was not after the Song Dynasty.

About the author: Wang Zhihuan (688-742) was born in Jinyang, Ji Ling (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), and later moved to Jiangzhou (now Jiangxian, Shanxi). Poets in Tang Dynasty.

Stork Tower, also known as Stork Tower, is named after its former site in the southwest of Zhou Pu (now Yongji County, a house in the river in the Tang Dynasty) in Shaanxi Province, and storks sometimes inhabit it. Shen Kuo wrote in Meng Qian's Bi Tan: "The mirage in the middle of the river has three floors, with a far-sighted view and a bird's eye view of the river. There were many poets in the Tang Dynasty. " Wang Zhihuan's "Five Wonders" is an immortal work in "Leaving Tang Poetry".

The first two sentences of the poem, "The mountains cover the day, and the ocean drains the golden river", are about the magnificent scenery seen from the stairs. Here, the poet captured the rivers and mountains of Wan Li in a very simple and plain language with just ten words; When we read these ten words a thousand years later, we seem to be underground, and we feel open-minded when we see the scenery. Looking into the distance, a touch of sunset sank to the endless rolling mountains in front of the building and disappeared into Ran Ran at the end of the field of vision. This is the sky view, the distant view and the western view. The second sentence is about the Yellow River flowing through the front and bottom of the building, roaring south, then turning east in the distance and flowing to the sea. This is from the ground to the horizon, from near to far, from west to east. When these two poems are combined, the scenery of up and down, far and near, and things are all contained under the pen, which makes the picture look particularly broad and distant. As far as the second poem is concerned, the poet can't see the Yellow River entering the sea from the stork building. The sentence is written in the middle of the poem, which is a way to combine the foreground with the sky. This writing increases the breadth and depth of the picture.

There are two sentences in Du Fu's Song of Wang Zai's Painting Landscape: "Traveling in ancient times, talking about Wan Li recently". Although it is about painting, it can also be used to talk about poetry. These two poems written by Wang Zhihuan's landscape make it possible for Wan Li to be close at hand and Wan Li to be close at hand.

At this point, the poem seems to have written all the scenery in front of us, but surprisingly, in the second half of the poem, the poet pushed the poem to a higher level and showed readers a bigger vision with the words "But you go up a storey still higher, and your vision will be broadened by three hundred li". These two poems are not only unexpected, but also very natural, close to the first two; At the same time, the use of the word "Lou" at the end also plays a role in pointing out that this is a poem about climbing stairs. It can be inferred from the second half of the poem that the first half was written on the second floor. The poet wanted to see the distant scenery as far as possible, and even climbed to the top floor of the building. The poem seems to write the process of climbing stairs straightforwardly, but it has far-reaching implications and is intriguing. Here is the poet's enterprising spirit, forward-looking mind, and also the philosophy of standing high and looking far.

As far as the whole poem is concerned, this poem is said by the Japanese monk Konghai in On the Chamber of Secrets in the Mirror. Some people say that poetry should not be reasonable. This should only mean that poetry should not be blunt, boring and abstract, not that philosophy cannot be revealed and promoted in poetry. Just like this poem, it perfectly dissolves truth, scenery and events, making readers feel comfortable instead of reasoning. This is a mode to express the philosophy of life through thinking in images according to the characteristics of poetry.

The writing of this poem has another feature: it is a quatrain full of antithesis. When Shen Deqian chose this poem in the Tang Dynasty, he pointed out: "Four languages are correct, and it is not too expensive to read, so the bones are high." There are only two couplets in the quatrains, both of which are antithetical sentences. If it is not full of momentum and clear-cut, it will easily appear dull or fragmented. In this poem, the previous combination is the opposite name, the so-called "right and wrong", and the sentence is extremely neat, heavy and powerful, which shows the greatness of the scene written; The latter is a flowing pair. Although the two sentences are relative, there is no trace of confrontation. The poet is also very mature in using dual skills.

Meng Qian Bi Tan pointed out that "only Li Yi, Wang Zhihuan and Chang Dang can describe the scenery" in the poems left by the Tang people in the stork house. Li Yi's poems are seven-rhythm poems; Wandering poem is also a five-line poem, also called "In the Lodge of the Heron". The whole poem is as follows: "On birds, they rise above the ground. Ye Ping is surrounded by the sky, and the river breaks into mountains. " The poetic scene is also magnificent and can be called a masterpiece. However, Wang Zhihuan's poems were the first, but in comparison, he lost in the end, and Wang's poems had to be once and for all.

Stork Tower is located in the southwest of Yongji County, Shanxi Province, on the third floor, facing the Yellow River, and was washed away by the Yellow River. Reconstruction in 2002. This poem describes the author boarding a building and overlooking it, a vast picture is presented to him: the sun sets and the Yellow River rushes. The poet can't help reciting two philosophical sentences: "However, going up a flight of stairs broadens your horizons by 300 miles".