Everything is still empty, and water is hidden in the mountains. Infinitely withered seedlings wither, and the leisurely place is a strange peak. What do you mean?

Author: Laigu

Everything is still empty, reflecting water and hiding mountains.

Infinitely withered seedlings wither, and the leisurely place is a strange peak.

Xia Yun's style is very strange, and it doesn't change often. "There are many strange peaks in the summer clouds" is a famous sentence that has been passed down all the time. But the author of this poem seems to hate Xia Yun. He is very laid-back and pretentious. This is because the author's mood is not leisurely and his intentions are different.

In the first sentence, the specific images of Xia Yun are put aside, and the words "various" are briefly mentioned, followed by the emotional words "unexpected emptiness". It turns out that the poet is waiting to see the changes with the anxiety of a long drought, hoping for rain. For him, Xia Yun's various postures have no practical significance, and of course they are also unexpected descriptions. Different angles of attention to things naturally lead to different descriptions. Although the description of Xia Yun in this sentence is abstract, it is completely in line with the poet's mood at this time. It describes a process: the cloud constantly conjures up various images, and the poet constantly repeats his hopes and disappointments. Finally, the clouds drifted away with the wind and disappeared, and the poet's hope was finally completely shattered. The word "unexpected emptiness" not only contains deep disappointment contrary to expectations, but also contains a cavity of resentment after feelings are teased.

What will happen after the second sentence is written as "unexpected emptiness"? Although the clouds have changed or even disappeared, people who are eager for rain are still looking for it. It seems to be playing hide-and-seek with people on purpose: looking everywhere, suddenly lowering its head, only to find its reflection reflected in the water; Suddenly looked up and saw it hidden behind the mountain. It's like deliberately playing tricks in front of you: sometimes the clouds are light and sometimes they are heavy. This further describes the capacity and leisure of the cloud, the feeling of self-satisfaction and its posture. Poets who have experienced disappointment and being teased can imagine how they feel in the face of the cloud of self-praise.

"Infinite dry seedlings are dying, and the leisurely place is a strange peak." The third sentence is the background of the whole poem, which seems to be placed in the first sentence in a natural order. The poet is arranged here, on the one hand, to make this small poem suspenseful and turbulent; On the other hand (and more importantly), let it appear at the joint point of emotional development, thus forming a sharp contrast with the fourth sentence and achieving a stronger artistic effect. The third sentence obviously contains a lot of anxiety and resentment. It is very high and heavy, but the fourth sentence is very light when it is put down, and there is almost no emotion. On the one hand, a large area of dead seedlings are dying, eager for rain, and on the other hand, they are high above, carefree and tolerant, turning into a strange peak in self-appreciation. It is in the contrast description of ups and downs that the poet makes the finishing point for the image of Yun, and pushes his hatred of such Xia Yun to a climax.

A poem that is endowed with something instead of description can always inspire people's association and thinking with its vivid image. This poem does not seem to simply express the feelings of longing for rain and hating dry clouds after a long drought. The image of "cloud" in the poem not only has the characteristics of Xia Yun in nature, but also summarizes the characteristics of a certain kind of people in social life. That ever-changing cloud seems to give people hope to shed rain, but in fact it has no intention to save the dry seedlings. When people anxiously expect it to rain, it is a "miracle of leisure", which is self-evident. This is the respect of the powerful people in the old society who seem to be able to "solve problems" but actually "don't ask people's feelings". Its generality is very high, until today, we still feel that the personalized "cloud" described in the poem is familiar.

There are many famous sentences chanting clouds in ancient poems, but few people observe and describe clouds with the eyes and feelings of laborers. The little-known poet Lai Hu's poem "Cloud" may be regarded as the most popular work of chanting clouds.

See the weather from the clouds.

The lightest and tallest clouds are called cirrus clouds. This kind of cloud is very thin, through which sunlight can shine on the ground, and the light and shadow of houses and trees are still very clear. Cirrus clouds are constantly floating, sometimes like a white feather, sometimes like a white silk thread. If cirrus clouds are arranged in a row in the air, like fish scale waves caused by a breeze blowing over the water, it becomes cirrus clouds. Cirrus clouds and cirrocumulus are very high, where there is little water, which generally does not bring rain and snow. There is also a kind of white clouds like cotton balls, called cumulus clouds. They are often scattered in the sky about two kilometers, reflecting the bright sunshine, and the clouds are surrounded by golden brilliance. Cumulus clouds appear in the morning, most in the afternoon, and gradually dissipate in the evening. On sunny days, we occasionally see a kind of cumulus. Altocumulus clouds are groups of oblate clouds, which are arranged in a balanced way, with a blue sky in the middle, which looks like snow-white sheep on the grassland from a distance. Cirrus, cirrocumulus, Cumulus and Cumulus are all beautiful.

When the continuous rain and snow came, cirrus clouds were gathering, and a thin layer of clouds gradually appeared in the sky, as if covered with a white silk curtain. This cloud is called cirrostratus. Cirrostratus is advancing slowly, and the weather will turn cloudy. Then, the clouds are getting lower and thicker. Looking at the sun or the moon through clouds is like looking through a layer of ground glass. At this point, the scroll tower has been renamed. It's time to call it a high-level cloud. There are high clouds, and it often rains or snows within a few hours. Finally, the clouds are getting lower and thicker, the sun and the moon are hidden, and the sky is covered with dark gray clouds. This cloud is called nimbostratus. As soon as nimbostratus was formed, continuous rain and snow came.

In summer, before a thunderstorm, cumulus clouds are first seen in the sky. Cumulonimbus clouds become cumulonimbus clouds if they swell up quickly to form tall Yunshan, and the peaks compete with each other and go straight to the zenith. The cumulonimbus cloud grows higher and higher, the cloud bottom gradually turns black, and the Yunfeng gradually blurs. Soon, the whole Yunshan collapsed and dark clouds filled the sky. In an instant, thunder rumbled and thundered, and then it rained heavily, sometimes bringing hail or tornadoes.

We can also infer the weather from the brilliant phenomena on the clouds. Around the sun and the moon, sometimes beautiful colored apertures appear, the inner layer is red and the outer layer is purple. This aperture is called halo. Solar and lunar halos often appear on the cirrostratus, and the high-rise clouds behind cirrostratus and nimbostratus are signs of heavy rain. So there is a saying that the sun is dizzy in the middle of the night and the moon is dizzy at noon. When cirrostratus is accompanied by dizziness, the weather will get worse. There is also a colored halo smaller than the halo, called "Hua". The arrangement of colors is purple and red, just the opposite of halo. Rihua and Yuehua are mostly produced at the edge of cumulus clouds. From small to large in central China, the weather tends to be fine. The central region of China is getting smaller from big to small, and the weather may turn rainy. In summer, after the rain clears, a colorful arc is often hung on the cloud curtain opposite the sun. This is a rainbow. People often say: "The east rainbow thunders and the west rainbow rains." If the rainbow is in the east, it will thunder and not rain; The rainbow is in the west and there will be heavy rain. There is also a cloud color, which often appears in the early morning or evening. The sun shone all over the sky and dyed the clouds red. This cloud is called Xia Xia. The morning glow is in the west, indicating that rainy weather is attacking us; The sunset glow in the east means that the weather has been fine in recent days. Therefore, there is a proverb "Don't go out at sunrise, but go to Wan Li Road at sunset".