What is the full text and translation of the ancient poem Looking at Dongting Lake?

Liu Yuxi [Tang Dynasty]

The lake and the moon set each other off, and there is no wind mirror on the pool surface.

Looking at Dongting from a distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.

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On Dongting Lake, moonlight and water blend together, and the lake is calm, just like an unpolished bronze mirror.

The water color and moonlight of Dongting Lake reflect each other, like a green snail in a silver plate.

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1. Dongting: The name of the lake is in the north of Hunan Province today.

2. Lake light: the wave light on the lake.

3. Two: the lake and the autumn moon.

4. Harmony: Harmony. Water and moonlight reflect each other.

5. Pool surface: refers to the lake surface.

6. Mirrors are not polished: the mirrors of the ancients were made of copper. Here, it is said that the lake is as calm as a mirror; It is said that the scenery in the lake is blurred from a distance, just like a mirror is blurred without polishing.

7. Green landscape: also known as "landscape color".

8. Mountain: refers to Junshan Mountain in Dongting Lake.

9. Silver plate: describes the calm and clear Dongting Lake.

10. Green snail: This is used to describe Junshan Mountain in Dongting Lake.

Introduction of works

Looking at Dongting is a four-line poem written by Liu Yuxi, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake under the autumn moon, expresses the poet's love and praise for the scenery of Dongting Lake, and shows the poet's magnificent bearing and lofty and unique feelings. The whole poem chooses the moonlit perspective, which gives a panoramic view of a thousand miles of Dongting, grasps the most representative lakes and mountains, and creatively reproduces the beautiful scenery of Dongting on paper through rich imagination and clever metaphors, showing a superb artistic level.

works appreciation

This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake under the autumn moon. Microwave is quiet, calm, beautiful and particularly pleasant. The poet let go of his imagination, vividly described the hazy beauty of Dongting Lake in a fresh style, and sketched out a beautiful landscape of Dongting Lake.

"The lake and the moon set each other off, and there is no wind mirror on the pool surface." The first two sentences of this poem say that the moon is shining high in autumn night, and the lake is calm and windless, just like an iron-ground bronze mirror. The first sentence describes the clear lake and the green light of the plain moon, just like the meeting in Qiongtian, which is an ethereal, ethereal, quiet and harmonious realm. It shows a harmonious picture of Tianshui and jade characters without dust. The second sentence describes that there is no wind on the lake, and the charming lake is like an unpolished bronze mirror. The vivid metaphor complements the poem "Lake and Moon are in harmony".

The third and fourth sentences focus the poet's attention on Junshan from the overall picture of the vast lake and moonlight. The advantage of this sentence "a green snail in a silver plate" is not only reflected in the fineness of the police who set the metaphor, but also shows the poet's majestic bearing and his great passion. In the poet's eyes, a thousand miles of Dongting is just a mirror and a cup and plate on the case. It is very rare to lift weights lightly, the pool is natural and unpretentious. It is a reflection of the poet's character, sentiment and aesthetic taste to express the relationship between man and nature so cordially and to describe the lakes, mountains and mountains so broadly and clearly. Boldness without thought, full of romance.

This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake under the autumn moon, expresses the poet's love and praise for the scenery of Dongting Lake, and shows the poet's magnificent bearing and lofty and wonderful feelings.

Creation background

Looking at Dongting Lake was written by Liu Yuxi in the autumn of 824 AD (the fourth year of Changqing in Tang Muzong) when he went to Hezhou as a secretariat and passed through Dongting Lake. Liu Yuxi said in the preface to the Seventy Rhymes of Liyang: "In August of the fourth year of Changqing, the secretariat of Kuizhou was changed to Liyang (Hezhou), floating on the Minjiang River, watching Dongting, crossing the gorge and involving Xunyang in the east." In 20 years, Liu Yuxi was exiled to the south and went to Dongting. According to the literature, there are about six times. Among them, only the state is transferred, this time, in autumn. And this poem is a vivid record of this trip.

Brief introduction of the author

Liu Yuxi (772 ~842), whose real name is Meng De, was born in Luoyang, Henan Province (see the disputed catalogue of native places for details) and Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan Province. His ancestor was Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan Jing (descendant of Xiongnu), a minister, writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty, who was called a "poet".

Liu Yuxi's poems and essays are excellent and have a wide range of topics. He and Liu Zongyuan were also called "Three Masters" with Wei and Bai Juyi, and "Bai Liu" with Bai Juyi, leaving behind such famous works as Humble Room, Zhi Zhu Ci, Yang Liuzhi Ci and Wuyi Lane. Three philosophical works, The Theory of Heaven, discuss the materiality of heaven and analyze the origin of the theory of destiny, which is materialistic. He is the author of Collected Works of Liu Mengde and Collected Works of Liu Binke.