Dark clouds can't cover mountains, but white rain jumps over boats. What does that mean?

"Dark clouds can't cover the mountain, but white rain jumps over the boat" comes from the stone "Drunk Book at Wanghu Building on June 27th". It means that the rolling dark clouds, like spilled ink, have not completely covered the mountains, and the sparkling raindrops jump on the boat like pearls.

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"Drunken Bookstore on June 27th" [Song] Su Shi

original text

Clouds poured out and poured down like ink, but a mountain range was exposed on the horizon, bright and fresh, and the splashing water was like white pearl gravel, splashing on the boat.

Suddenly, the wind rolled up and dispersed the clouds in the sky. The lake was blue as a mirror, beautiful and gentle.

Interpretation of poetry

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Dark clouds roll, like overturned inkstones, winding the distant mountains. After a while, some pearls suddenly appeared on my boat, which were oppressive raindrops.

A gust of wind blew and dispersed the rainstorm. When I fled to Wang Hu Building, drinking and chatting, what I saw was blue sky and clear water.

To annotate ...

Drunk book: a work written when drunk.

Ink transfer: Flipped black ink, which describes dark clouds. Cover: cover, cover.

White rain: refers to the special landscape of summer showers, which is white and transparent against the backdrop of lakes and mountains because of the large and fierce raindrops.

Jumping beads: Jumping beads (pearls) are used to describe raindrops, indicating that raindrops are large and disorderly.

Wind blowing: refers to the strong wind blowing from the ground.

Suddenly: suddenly.

Water is like the sky: describe the lake as open and calm as the sky.

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It depicts the beautiful rainy scene of Wang Hu Building. The witty poet used his poems to capture this unique "improvisation" of Xizi Lake and described it as a "West Lake Shower Map". Dark clouds suddenly gathered, heavy rain suddenly fell, and it was sunny after the rain, and water and sky were the same. It is a mountain, a water and a boat, which highlights the characteristics of boating in the West Lake. It is refreshing to describe the change of the weather from showers to sunny days, and the eyes are suddenly enlightened and the realm is wide open.

Creation background

Song Shenzong Xining five years (1072) June 27th. Su Shi visited the West Lake in Hangzhou, describing what he saw and heard while cruising in the lake by boat, and describing the beautiful rain scene and wonderful lakes and mountains of Wanghulou.

Correlation extension

Wang Hu building 1? : At the foot of Baoshi Mountain, Beishan Road, Hangzhou, also known as Kanjing Building and Xianlai Building. It was built by King Qian Hongchu (also known as Hong Qian) of wuyue in the Five Dynasties.

2. Su Shi, whose word is Zizhan, whose word is Zhonghe Zhong, is a famous Taoist in tin cans, a layman in Dongpo, with the name Su Dongpo, Su Xian, Poxian, Han nationality, a native of Meishan and Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province), a writer, calligrapher, gourmet, painter and historical water control celebrity in the Northern Song Dynasty. As one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". Su Shi's good book, one of Song Sijia; His works include Seven Chapters of Dongpo, Dongpo Yi Zhuan, Dongpo Yuefu, Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Map, Strange Stone Map of Dead Trees, etc.