Song Dynasty: Ouyang Xiu
It's good to take a canoe to the West Lake, and the green water is winding. The grass is on the long embankment, and the music is everywhere.
when there is no wind, the glass is slippery, so the boat will not move. Micro-ripple, started sand birds skimming the shore.
Translation
The scenery of the West Lake is beautiful, and how carefree it is to drive a boat and paddle short oars. The green lake stretches continuously. The grass on the long embankment is green, and there is a soft sound of singing in the spring breeze, like floating on the lake with the boat.
The windless water is as smooth as glass, and even the boat can't feel it moving. I saw the slight waves rippling beside the boat, and the waterfowl that was startled by the boat was flying across the shore of the lake.
Appreciation
This word is one of the words in Picking Mulberry Seeds. Describing the scenery of the four seasons is an important part of Ouyang Xiu's ci-poetry in Picking Mulberry Seeds. This song ranks first, and it is about the West Lake in spring. The scenery and mood, dynamic and static, vision and hearing are combined in pairs, forming a flowing landscape. In a relaxed and elegant style, the whole poem describes the beautiful scenery seen when boating on Yingzhou West Lake. Taking "canoeing" as the basic point of observing the scenery, the boat changes scenery, but the mood is consistent. The color is beautiful, the style is beautiful, full of poetry and painting, and it is fresh and gratifying to read.
Shangcheng mainly writes about bank scenery, with a relaxed and elegant style. "West Lake is good" is the eye of an article, and the word "short" has euphemistically written the meaning of leisure. Because it is short, the canoe floats slowly and leisurely on the lake, so tourists have enough time to watch the spring scenery on both sides of the strait.
The sentence "Green water meanders, grass grows on a long embankment" is full of dynamic pictures from the center of the lake to the embankment through the water surface, and then the whole lake is pushed to the distance.
And the sentence "Faint music everywhere" depicts the joyful mood of the West Lake from the perspective of hearing, and both "Faint" and "Everywhere" highlight the sense of mobility of the canoe.
Xiatan's viewpoint is closed, mainly written as "green water winding". It is written that the water surface is smooth, and the word "windless" is the cardinal. Because there is no wind, it makes the water surface of the West Lake clear and smooth, and it also makes tourists "feel the boat moving", which is not only poetic, but also logical. Writing about the boat's move shocked the birds, which cut the calm of the lake and added an excitement to this leisurely trip. Probably the sand birds have long been used to the smoothness of the West Lake, so the small ripples brought by the canoe are enough to scare the sand birds and fly across the shore. Therefore, the viewpoint extends from near to far and then to high, presenting the three-dimensional and dynamic West Lake to readers. Taking the progress of canoe as a clue, the whole word gradually writes out the scenery characteristics of the embankment and the lake, and integrates the leisure interest of tourists into it. The canoe is short, the green water is fragrant, the tourists sing and scare the birds, and the "West Lake is good" has been vividly interpreted under this background.
The whole poem describes Yingzhou West Lake in spring. The scenery is so fascinating, the green water is winding, the long beach is green and the grass is green, and there is a soft sound of singing in the spring breeze. The water is as flat as a mirror, and the boat has moved on the smooth spring wave without the help of the wind. This word is like a beautiful, lively and ethereal landscape painting, which is beautiful, fresh and lovely and has a strong attraction.