Poetry of Xiao Si Mountain in Hezheng County

From Tang Geng, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, "What I saw in the book at the end of Zen"

Rain is always dark, and spring is everywhere.

The mountain and the temple are lost, and the lake is lonely.

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There are two songs in "The Living Buddha Zen Twilight City", which is the first one. Tang Geng and Su Shi are fellow villagers, and their life experiences are somewhat similar, so they are called "Little Dongpo". Su Shi lived in Huizhou for several years, while Tang Geng was banished to Huizhou for many years because of his fame in Zhang Shangying and Zhang Shangying. This group was made during his demotion to Huizhou. The "Qi Chan" mentioned in the title is a mountain in Huizhou. The poem is about the scenery you saw when you traveled to Zen Mountain at dusk.

This first sentence describes the unique climate scene of Lingnan spring: it just rained for a while, and it became brighter; But then it was cloudy and desert, and another rain was brewing. This ever-changing, sometimes rainy, sometimes bright and sometimes dark sky, as well as the lingering sound of rain, can be truly and vividly expressed in just a short sentence. The word "zai" is a sentence, but it seems natural and muddy, without any intention.

The second sentence "Spring Back to the Earth" was written by Tian Rong to Yates. Spring returns to the earth, and everything is green. "Back" can refer to both going home and returning, and the latter means to convey joy. With the words "green everywhere", the joy is beyond words. The author of "Spring Return" said: "What is the east wind? Awkward. The sentence "where I arrived" means "Spring has come back everywhere". However, the poem "Spring Back" emphasizes the role of spring breeze, but this article generally says that spring has returned to the green age, suggesting that this intermittent spring rain has the function of nourishing everything.

In the third sentence, "the mountain is deep and the small temple is lost", the front point is Qichan Mountain. The "small temple" in the sentence is the Qichan Temple. When the title said "Return at dusk", the Seven Zen Temple was already there when it was visited during the day. It says "Lost Temple" here, which means that when I came back at dusk, the small temple I visited during the day disappeared because of the overlapping mountains and the twilight. The temple is small, so the word "lost" is used to express it. Here reveals the poet's nostalgia for the scenic spots he experienced during the day, and also vaguely reveals a trace of disappointment.

The last sentence "The lake is an isolated pavilion" is the opposite of the previous sentence. The first sentence is what you see when you look back, and the second sentence is what you encounter when you move forward. Lake refers to Hufeng Lake in Huizhou, in the west of the city, and Qichan Mountain is above Hufeng Lake. On his way home at dusk, the poet strolled to the end of Hu Feng Lake and suddenly found a lonely pavilion, which made him feel very happy. Three or four sentences, on the one hand, is a sudden loss, on the other hand, is a pleasant encounter, running through the poet's "twilight return" journey.

This poem is written from the weather to mountains and lakes. The Return of Twilight is the main line of scenery writing. Poetry tends to be practical in writing, which is different from poetic quatrains in Tang Dynasty. The poem takes the form of antithesis, one sentence and one scene. On the surface, they are independent and unrelated. In fact, the scenery written is not only spring, but also the characteristics of sunny and rainy changes in spring in Lingnan area and the specific time of "returning at dusk". So although there is no obvious transition and connection between each picture, these pictures give readers a unified overall feeling. Readers can not only see the beautiful spring scenery when Lingnan returns in spring, but also feel the joy of the poet. This kind of scenery writing technique, which focuses on describing the real situation, one sentence and one scene, seems to be divorced from reality, can be encountered in many quatrains of Du Fu after he entered Shu.