The stream is heartless like sentient beings, and it takes three days to walk with you.
Lingtou is the parting place, saying goodbye to the murmur all night.
Preface
Crossing the Watershed, written by Wen Tingyun, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is a well-known seven-character quatrain. This poem turns heartless things into feelings, and describes the author's karma and feelings with the stream when crossing the watershed.
note
⑴ watershed: the watershed between Hanshui River and Jialing River
⑴gurgling: it refers to the way and sound of the stream flowing slowly.
Translation
The stream was originally heartless, but in the past three days, when it entered the mountain, it gained its peers, and it became emotional. The front is the parting place, and in my heart, I can't help but feel reluctant to say goodbye.
Appreciation
The' watershed' written in the poem is about Gezhong Mountain in the southeast of Lueyang County, Shaanxi Province. This is the only place between Qin and Shu or between Qin and Liang, and it was a famous traffic artery in the Tang Dynasty, so it is generally called the watershed instead of the location. The title "Crossing the Watershed" actually describes a karma with the stream in the journey across the watershed and the poetic feelings caused by it.
The language of this poem is simple and prose-like, but it is quite interesting. Not only personified a mountain stream, but also a spoony little girl. She took pains to see her off for three days, and finally couldn't help sobbing on the eve of parting, which made people feel cute and affectionate, and even made people want to comfort her for Feiqing gently. As you can imagine, this stream must be beautiful and gentle, and get along well with Fei Qing, otherwise Fei Qing probably wouldn't be so happy.
the flowing water under the watershed has been flowing for ages. There are thousands of travelers who have seen this stream, but it seems that no one has discovered beauty and poetry from this ordinary scene. Because Wen Tingyun has a deep experience in the life of exile and cherishes the friendship between friends, he can find such a partner as Xishui and give it a touching human beauty. Here, it is not so much the poetic beauty of objective things that triggers the poet's feelings, but rather that the poet shifts his beautiful feelings to objective things. Turning ruthlessness into sentience is based on the poet's own sentience.