Ancient Poetry and Appreciation

The five-character poems and their appreciation are summarized as follows

01 "Bird Song Stream"

Tang Dynasty - Wang Wei

The osmanthus flowers fall in the leisure of people, and the night is quiet and the spring mountains are empty.

The moonrise startles the mountain birds, and sometimes they sing in the spring stream.

Wang Wei liked to create a quiet mood in his landscape poems, and so does this poem.

The whole poem aims to write about the quiet, but with the flowers falling, moonrise, birds singing these moving scenes to deal with, so that the poem seems to be full of vitality and not silent, more prominent to show the quiet of the spring stream, extremely see the poet's Zen heart and Zen interest.

02 "Staying at the Jiande River"

Tang Meng Haoran

Moving the boat to the smoky islet, the day is over, the guest is worried about the new.

The sky is open and the trees are low, the river is clear and the moon is near.

The poet was once full of hope to run into Chang'an, but now he can only carry a cavity of sorrow and anger of being abandoned to search for the south of Wuyue.

At this moment, he was alone, facing the vastness of the field, the river is long, the moon and the scenery of the lonely boat, that detained the despair, homesickness, career disillusionment, disillusionment of ideals, life's ups and downs ...... thousands of sadness, can not help but come in a flurry, surging to the heart.

03 Deer Chai

Tang - Wang Wei

Empty mountains do not see people, but heard people talking.

Returning to the scene into the deep forest, and shining again on the moss.

This poem creates a deep and bright symbolic realm, showing the author's enlightenment in the process of deep and secluded meditation.

Silence without sound and darkness without light are easily perceived by the general public; but silence with sound and darkness with light are less noticed.

04 "On the Lake in Autumn Day"

Tang-Xue Ying

The sun sets on a tour of the five lakes, and the smoky waves are full of sorrow.

Floating and sinking are things of the past, who will ask about the east current.

Thousands of years of constant occurrence of things have with the surface of the water on Lake Taihu floating and sinking, all with the lake to the east.

Fame and fortune, fight and kill with the wheel of history have disappeared into obscurity. The only thing that remains unchanged is the river.

05 Xinyiwu

Tang - Wang Wei

The hibiscus flower at the end of the wood, the red calyx in the mountains.

There is no one in the valley, but the flowers bloom and fall.

This poem is written from blossom to blossom, and inserted with a line of environmental description, a before and after the situation is very different, from hair to fall.

In just four lines, the poem depicts the beautiful image of the flower, but also writes a lonely scene and environment, so that people can experience a sense of loneliness for the environment of the times.