What do you mean by windless mirrors on lakes, moons and pools?

Mirrors are not polished: ancient mirrors 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.

Original poem

Wangdongting

Liu Yuxi

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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The wind and waves are calm, and the moonlight is mixed with water and color. The lake is like a bronze mirror that doesn't need polishing, smooth and bright. Looking at Dongting from afar, the mountains are green and the water is green. The lush Dongting Mountain stands in the Dongting Lake with white light, just like a green snail in a silver plate.

To annotate ...

Dongting Lake: The name of the lake is now in the north of Hunan Province.

Lake light: the wave light on the lake.

Two: the lake and the autumn moon.

Harmony (hé): refers to the mutual reflection of water color and moonlight.

Pond surface: refers to the lake surface.

Mirrors are not polished: ancient mirrors 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.

Silver plate: describes the calm and clear Dongting Lake.

Green snail: used here to describe Dongting Mountain in Dongting Lake.

author

Liu Yuxi (772-842), Han nationality, was born in Pengcheng (now Xuzhou) in China in the Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home was Luoyang, a writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty. He claimed to be a descendant of the King of Mountain Scenery in Hanzhong. He used to be a supervisor and member of the Wang Reform School. A famous poet in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, he is known as the "great poet". His family is a scholarly family handed down from generation to generation by Confucianism. Advocating political innovation is one of the core figures of the Wang school's political innovation activities. Later, Yongzhen failed in innovation and was demoted to Sima Langzhou (now Changde, Hunan). According to the textual research of Mr. Zhou, a historian and collector in Changde, Hunan Province, Liu Yuxi was demoted to Sima Langzhou, during which he wrote the famous "Han Shou Chun Wang".