What's the meaning of the author and source of the lonely desert and the long river setting the yen?

"The desert is lonely and straight, and the long river sets the yen." This is a famous sentence written by Wang Wei, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. Source < < Make it to the top > >

The boundless desert can only be described by a word "big"; On this pure and desolate background, a wisp of white smoke lit on the beacon tower goes straight into the sky, how striking it is, and the word "solitary smoke" can shape its charm. "Solitary smoke" is followed by the word "straight", which makes the scenery look simple and straightforward. "The long river sets the yen", a vast desert, with no mountains and no trees, only the Yellow River runs through it. As far as the field of vision is concerned, the desert is boundless and the Yellow River is endless, so the word "long" naturally comes to the author's mind. Above the "long river" is the round sunset. The word "round" here and the word "straight" in front are both vivid and vivid, and it is difficult to express its beauty.

Appreciation of "The desert is lonely and the smoke is straight, and the long river sets the yen"

These two poems fully embody the picturesque characteristics of the poem and pay great attention to the picture sense of the scenery. First of all, it has a picturesque composition, from the sunset on the horizon to the beacon smoke in the air to the underground river, from the nearby beacon smoke to the distant sunset to the endless desert. Although there are not many scenes on the screen, the space is wide and the levels are rich. Secondly, it has lines as exquisite as painting. On the endless desert, smoke is vertical, river is horizontal and sunset is round. With a few strokes, it outlines the basic form of the scenery with simple lines, which is very general, just like abstract works. Thirdly, these two sentences are also rich in color. The vast desert is full of yellow sand, and the orange sunset at dusk converges its brilliance, quietly living in the sky, reflecting the calm river with white light, and a wisp of white beacon smoke rises from the desert, reaching high into the sky, and the magnificent frontier scenery is as it is now.

In A Dream of Red Mansions, Xiangling said, "The word' straight' seems unreasonable, and the word' round' seems too vulgar. When I close the book and think about it, I seem to have seen this scene. If you want to find two more for these two, you can't find two more words. " Although she can't clearly tell where these two words are, she intuitively feels that they describe solitary smoke and sunset very vividly and irreplaceable. Su Shi commented on Wang Weiyun's "poem with a charming taste, with pictures in it;" It's very appropriate that there is a poem in the painting.

Different understandings of "smoke": Some people think it is beacon smoke, while others think it is cooking smoke.