mountain village

On the mountain village

Yonghuai of a mountain village is a poem written by Shao Yong, a philosopher in the Northern Song Dynasty. This poem arranges the scenes of Yancun, people, pavilions, flowers and so on by means of brocade to form an idyllic landscape, and creates a kind of elegant artistic conception to express the poet's love and praise for nature.

Original works

On the mountain village

When you go there, there are four or five houses in Yancun. There are six or seven pavilions with 80 or 90 flowers.

Note translation

Notes on words and sentences

① Distance: go. ② Yancun: a village shrouded in smoke. (3) Pavilion: generally refers to the building for people to enjoy and rest.

Vernacular translation

At first glance, it was two or three miles away, and mist enveloped four or five families. There are six or seven pavilions beside the village, and many flowers are blooming.

Creative background

When the poet went to Gongcheng (now Huixian County, Henan Province) in March of Yangchun, he saw the rolling spring and charming rural scenery in the countryside. In order to express the poet's leisure mood and positive attitude towards life, he wrote this poem.

Appreciation of works

Appreciation of literature

"One to two or three li, four or five Yancun" is a linear visual impression, "one to do horizontal movement," two or three "refers to a large number of virtual, smoke curling in a vertical state," pavilions six or seven, 80 or 90 flowers "two sentences into a point visual impression: pavilions seat, flowers blossoming. in each sentence of this poem, the poet arranges a quantifier, namely "Li", "Jia", "Zuo" and "Zhi", which is novel and changeable. He also arranges two or three numbers in each sentence: "one" starts, "two three", "four five" and "six seven" are embedded in the sentence, "eight or nine" returns to the beginning of the sentence, and ten Chinese characters representing numbers from one to ten are arranged in the order of natural numbers in the same way as the path, smoke, village and village Pavilions and flowers are woven together. With the natural arrangement of poems and pictures, it takes only a few strokes to form a natural, simple and hazy mountain village landscape painting, which is naturally integrated into the artistic conception of the mountain village.

Comments on celebrities

Jin Bo's on children's poetry by modern writer Jin Bo: sound, meaning and painting are well integrated. Modern linguist Yang Chunlin's Dictionary of Chinese Rhetorical Art: vivid and implicit, natural and appropriate. Guo Yanquan, a member of the Modern Writers Association, wrote his poem "a dream of walking in the country": he suddenly felt that he had fallen in many ways and was full of wit.

About the author

Shao Yong (1011-1077), named Yaofu, was a scholar, philosopher, thinker and educator of the Northern Song Dynasty. He was born in Fanyang (now Zhuozhou, Hebei Province). His hometown is Shao village, more than 10 miles northwest of Zhuozhou. He moved to Gongcheng (now Huixian, Henan Province) with his father. When he was 30 years old, he traveled to Henan Province and lived in seclusion in Sumen mountain. He was called Mr. Bai Yuan. After his death, he was posthumously named Mr. Kang Jie. His works include Huangji Jingshi and Yichuan Jidun Ji. His congenital theory was developed into prediction by later generations.

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