What does it mean that the lotus leaves come out before the fishing boat?

Moral: The lotus leaf is swaying like a canoe swimming up and down.

Origin: Autumn Night in the Mountain is a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei.

Original text:

The empty mountains are bathed in a new rain, and feel the early autumn at night.

The bright moon shed clear light from the cracks and cleared the fountain on the rocks.

The bamboo forest is sonorous, the washerwoman returns, and the lotus leaves are swaying to get on the canoe.

Spring spring might as well give it a rest, and the autumn sun can stay on the hills for a long time.

Translation:

The empty mountain is bathed in a new rain, and the arrival of night makes people feel that it is early autumn. The moon is clear and clear, and the clear spring is flowing. The bamboo forest was noisy until the washerwoman came back, and the lotus leaves swayed like canoes. The wheat straw in spring might as well let it rest, and the prince and grandson in the mountains can stay in autumn.

Overall appreciation

This poem is a masterpiece of landscape, describing the evening scenery after rain seen by the villagers in early autumn, and pinning the poet's noble feelings and pursuit of ideal realm in poetry and painting.

"The empty mountain after the rain stands in the autumn evening." The poem clearly says that there are female fishing boats, but the poet writes "the empty mountain". This is because the dense trees on the mountain cover up the traces of people's activities. The so-called "there seems to be no one on the empty mountain, but I think I heard a voice" (Chai Lu).

Because there are few people here, "no one in the cave knows about foreign affairs, and outsiders only see the empty mountains and thick clouds" ("Peach Blossom Garden"), naturally someone came from Fugui Mountain. The word "empty mountain" points out that besides, it is like a paradise. In the early days of Shan Yu, everything was new. It was early autumn evening. It is conceivable that the air is fresh and the scenery is wonderful.