In our impression, "ethereal" is generally associated with the atmosphere. For example, the poet immortal Li Bai has a poem cloud, "the bright moon rises from the Tianshan Mountains, and the vast sea of clouds" is full of shock. The beginning of "Journey to the West" is, "Chaos is not divided into heaven and earth, and no one sees it", creating an atmosphere of the fairy world. However, many "vast, ethereal" poems express different moods of poets, some are low and confused, some are tragic voices, and some are dashing and retreating.
1. Ethereal and unreachable, white clouds, green cave mountains, summer is complete
The late Ming poet Xia Wanchun was a hero of the anti-Qing dynasty, who devoted his life to the anti-Qing struggle, died nine times, and finally heroically became righteous. This poem "Absolute Sentence" is written from his experience of losing a battle and returning to Taihu Lake to find his comrades:
Between the two peaks of the bright moon in Bian Zhou, the thousands of acres of Luhua people have not yet returned.
Ethereal and unreachable, white clouds and emerald cave garden.
Ethereal and unreachable, white clouds and emerald cave garden
"Between the two peaks of the bright moon of the flat boat, the thousands of acres of Luhua people have not yet returned", on a bleak moonlit night in the autumn, I drove a flat boat from Xukou into Taihu Lake, and the towering Xu Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain on both sides of the bank, and the bright moon rose between these two mountains; I walked through the endless reeds, hoping to find my lost comrades. However, except for Qianyuan Luhua, there was no trace of his comrades.
One sentence, "A thousand acres of Luhua people have not yet returned", reminds us of the famous sentence of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Changling, "Qin time, Ming moon and Han Shiguan, thousands of miles of long march people have not yet returned", all the same tragedy.
"Ethereal and unreachable, white clouds and empty green Dongting Mountain", "Dongting Mountain", towering over the island mountain in Taihu Lake, divided into two mountains, east and west, where the anti-Qing army swore to raise troops. At the foot of Dongting Mountain, white clouds floating, smoke and mist, ethereal peaks towering into the clouds, unable to approach, and can no longer return to the appearance when the oath master started fighting.
The last sentence is "ethereal and vast" and "white clouds and empty emerald", the scenery is vast, but it profoundly expresses the poet's sad and confused mood at that time!
2. The mountain light is as bright as a mirror, and the sky is infinitely secluded
Qing Dynasty poet Wu Zhufang's "Eight Scenic Poems: Overlapping Qingfeng Reflecting the Blue Stream" is written about the lake and mountains, and the sky is verdant, showing the poet's leisurely and contemplative heart:
Overlapping green peaks reflect the blue stream, and the west is refreshing in autumn.
The mountain light is as bright as a mirror, and the sky is infinitely secluded.
The mountain light is as bright as a mirror, and the sky is infinitely secluded
"Overlapping green peaks reflect the blue stream, and the west is refreshing for an autumn", overlapping cyan peaks are reflected on the turquoise river; The west wind blows, and the refreshing air from the west makes everyone refreshed in early autumn!
"The mountain light is as bright as a mirror, the sky is infinitely beautiful", "empty green", here refers to both green grass and trees, green lake water, and blue sky. The lake is beautiful and mountainous, making people look at it, and the lake is bright as a mirror; The lake is green, the green mountains are green, and the sky is green, which is really emerald green, which makes people have infinite reverie and infinite meditation.
In a word, "the mountain light is as bright as a mirror, the sky is infinitely secluded", the lake and mountains, the sky is verdant, bringing people autumn meditation!
3. Immediately the west wind blows the dream breaks, and the road across the forest fireworks is vast, Liu Zhan
If a person sees the vast scenery during the journey, he will definitely have a feeling that the road ahead is uncertain, and his mood will be extremely desolate. The Jin Dynasty poet Liu Zhan's poem "Wuji Daozhong Milky Way Faintly Radiant Autumn Light" describes this mood:
The Milky Way is faintly shining with autumn light, and the moon is missing and cool.
Immediately the westerly wind blew the dream, and the road across the forest was empty.
Immediately the westerly wind blew the dream, and the road across the forest was empty
"The Milky Way is faintly pouring autumn light, the lack of moon tops hangs in the evening cool", the Milky Way is far away, the starlight is faint, lazily pouring out the cool light of autumn; A round of missing moons, quietly hanging in the treetops, the moonlight is like water, exuding the evening coolness of autumn.
"Immediately the west wind blows the dream, and the road through the forest fireworks is vast", I rode on my horse, drowsy, and a cold west wind blew and made me wake up from my dream; Sporadic lights can be seen through the woods, but more of them are thick with smoke, and the road ahead looks so vast and boundless.
One sentence, "Immediately the west wind blows the dream broken, across the forest fireworks road is vast", reminds me of the famous sentence of the Yuan Dynasty opera Ma Zhiyuan, "The ancient road west wind thin horse, the sunset in the west, the broken intestine is in the end of the world", one is the scenery at night, the other is the scenery of the night, all the same confused and heartbreaking!
4. Outside the vast cloud tree, the bright moon rises from Guazhou, Yuan Zhang
This Qing Dynasty poet Yuan Zhang's "Night Over Guazhou Frost Goose A Word", unlike the above ones, he wrote the "vast and ethereal" scenery particularly boldly, without autumn meditation and autumn lamentation at all:
Frost geese spoke, autumn on both sides of the Yanjiang River.
Thirty miles of reeds, blowing snow all over the bow of the boat.
I want to ride the tide, and I don't collect the lonely sail at night.
Outside the vast cloud trees, the bright moon rises from Guazhou.
Outside the vast cloud trees, the bright moon rises from Guazhou
"Reed flowers thirty miles, blowing snow all over the bow", here the reeds bloom, more than thirty miles long, the autumn wind blows, the reed flowers flutter, like a strong wind blowing snow, floating all over the bow of the ship.
"I want to ride the tide, the lonely sail does not collect at night", I want to ride the tide, so at night, only I have a lonely sail that is not put away and goes with the wind. This sentence is quite heroic with Su Dongpo's "I want to ride the wind and return", and it is written with a heart-pounding heart.
"Outside the vast cloud trees, the bright moon rises from Guazhou", outside the woods shrouded in vast clouds, a bright moon rises from Guazhou. This sentence reminds us of Li Bai's sentence, "The bright moon rises from the Tianshan Mountains, and the vast sea of clouds", here Li Bai's verse is reversed, but they are all the same majestic and magnificent!
5. The white clouds suddenly merged, all in the void, Lu Shouzeng
Song Mountain is one of the "Five Mountains", a famous Buddhist shrine and a retreat for many celebrities. Qing Dynasty poet Lü Shouzeng's poem "Wangsong Mountain, Thirty-Six Peaks Like a Bun", portrays the ethereal and magnificent scenery of Songshan Mountain, and also expresses the poet's mood of retreat, between what if there is nothing:
The thirty-six peaks are like a bun, and pedestrians are comfortable to come and go.
The white clouds suddenly merged, all in the void.
The white clouds suddenly merged, all in the void
"Thirty-six peaks are like a bun, pedestrians come and go comfortably", "thirty-six peaks" refers to the thirty-six peaks of Songshan Mountain known for their beautiful scenery, including Sun, Shaoyang, Bright Moon, Jade Pillar, Banzai, Phoenix, Suspension, Wolong, Jade Mirror, Qingtong, Huanggai, Lion, Jiming, Songtao, Shiman, Taibai, Luohan, Bailu, etc. "Bun", originally referring to the carefully combed hair bun of women, is used as a metaphor for the kind of strange show of Songshan.
The thirty-six peaks of Songshan Mountain are all as beautiful as beautiful women's hair buns, and the crowds shuttling on the mountain road are particularly comfortable and happy.
"The white clouds suddenly merged, all in the void", the white clouds on the mountain were full of life, opening and closing, but they were all so high and far away, as if they were in the void.
In one sentence, "the white clouds suddenly merged, all in the void", not only wrote the beautiful scenery of Songshan Mountain, ethereal nothingness, but also with a strong hint of seclusion, worthy of our attention.
6. Nagisa smoke and emerald sky, beach moon broken light stream, Huangfu Ran
Relatively speaking, this Tang Dynasty poet Huangfu Ran's "Return to Luoshui" has a stronger color of guiyin. The ancients went into hiding, the first choice was to return by the water, the famous "the water of the waves is clear, you can wet me." The water of the waves is turbid, you can wet my feet", that is, to borrow the water of the waves and return to hiding. And in this poem "Return to Luoshui", the poet wants to return to Luoshui:
At dusk, he went to spring and returned to the south to the crossing.
Nagisa smoke and emerald sky, beach moon broken light stream.
There are fishing boats in the waves.
Who knows that the singer is playing, this meaning is leisurely.
Nagisa smoke and emerald sky, beach moon broken light stream
"Nagisa smoke and emerald sky, beach moon broken light stream", the green smoke on Nagisa and the blue sky together, is so ethereal, people can't see the front clearly; And the moonlight on the beachhead is also so mysterious, like green smoke flowing; Everywhere it gives a feeling of confusion.
"Fengpu Rao Fangcao, there are fishing boats in the waves", "Fengpu", from Song Yu's "Fengpu Sorrowful Autumn", expresses the sadness that the poet did not meet his talent. "Vicissitudes", a place of retreat. This place is suitable for sad autumn and release the pain that you have not encountered; And there must be fishing boats on the waves, suitable for me to go to hide.
"Who knows that the singer is leisurely", and who knows that the guest who plays the song here is in a mood at the moment because of the ethereal scenery here, and the meditation, sorrow comes from it, and the affection is leisurely.
7. The night with floating smoke, the vast and obscure sky, the willow is moderate
In general, the width of rivers is limited, and it is easy to see the banks during the day when the line of sight is good. But at night, the vision is very poor, and it is easy to fog, which will make people feel ethereal. Tang Dynasty poet Liu Zhongyong's poem "Night Crossing the River, Night Zhu with Floating Smoke" tells the feeling of stopping the boat in Jiangzhu at night:
The night is full of smoke, and the sky is far away.
The boat did not move, and the cable was in a hurry.
Listen to the flute to find the shore, smell the incense and know the lotus.
Only look at the sail shadow, often afraid of the customer's heart.
The night is full of smoke, and the sky is far away
"Night Nagisa with floating smoke, vast and obscure sky", on the Jiangzhu at night, a burst of floating smoke is pervasive, making people feel that the river is vast, and the sky in the distance is also dark.
In this case, you can't see the river bank clearly, "listen to the flute to find the shore, smell the incense and secretly recognize the lotus", hear the sound of the flute, and only then can you follow the sound of the flute to find the riverbank; And a burst of fragrance wafted in, smelled the fragrance, and knew that there were lotus leaves and lotus flowers in the river.
"Only look at the shadow of the sail, often afraid of the hearts of the guests", Jiang Zhu is confused, can only see the shadow of the sails that came over, which often makes the heart of the ferryman hang in the air, will this ship collide!
Many times, people have a feeling of vastness, not because of how empty and far away, but because the fog makes people unable to see clearly!
8. The sky is full of people, and the sky is full of people
If there is a place that is most suitable for seeing the ethereal scenery, it must be on the sea, on the sea, it is the most ethereal place that human beings can see on the earth. The Tang Dynasty poet Zhou Xiu's poem "Looking at the Sea, Vast Sky and Flooding the Sun" describes the ethereal sea:
The sky is full of people.
Half-immersed in the Chinese shore, bypassing exotic ships.
There should be a country between the islands, and there should be lawlessness outside Poland.
If you want to be a passenger, turn over the next year.
The sky is full of people
"The sky is full of sun, and there are no people around", the surrounding is vast, the sky is ethereal, there is only one round of daylight; As far as the eye can see, there are no people everywhere.
The ethereal sea is ethereal, Cao Cao wrote in "Watching the Sea", "If the journey of the sun and the moon is out of it; The stars are brilliant, if out of it", even the sky, the sun, moon and stars are like on the sea, and you can see the ethereal sea.
"There should be a country between the islands, and there should be a law outside the country", and there should be a country on the islands on the sea; And beyond the rough waves on the sea, there may be no more heaven and earth. Or the saying, "If the sun and the moon go out of it; The stars are brilliant, if they are out of it", beyond the sea, there can be no more heaven and earth.
"If you want to be a traveler, turn over your worries and go to the next year", humanity, fairy land is ethereal, then the sea must be an ethereal fairyland, so the poet wants to be a passenger and travel far away to fairyland, so that there will be no sorrow in the coming year.
9. If there is something in the mountains, the sky is covered with green clothes, Wang Yan
Being on the peak between the mountains, it is easy to have an ethereal feeling, if the mountain peak is higher, even halfway up the mountain, it is ethereal, like in a fairyland. This Song Dynasty poet Wang Yan's "Into Cui, Road into the Depths of the Mid-Mountains" describes this ethereal feeling:
The road is deep in the mountains, and the clouds are forgotten.
If there is something in the mountains, the sky is covered with emerald clothes.
If there is something in the mountains, the sky is covered with emerald clothes
"The road enters the depths of the mid-mountain, and the clouds are forgotten every day", the poet stepped into the depths of the half-mountain, and the white clouds were already floating around, like soaring clouds driving the fog; So, the poet traveled through the clouds, and for a whole day, he forgot to go back.
"If there is something in the mountain, the clothes are covered with emeralds", and "button" leads to "knocking", that is, the meaning of percussion. If I want to ask where there is in the mountains, it will make me linger; I will answer him, if nothing else, just the empty and vast artistic conception, and the emerald green plants, even if it is a sunny day, will make my clothes wet. That's enough to keep me entertained!
One sentence, "If there is something in the mountains, the sky is covered with green clothes", which reminds us of the poet Tao Hongjing of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, "What is in the mountains, there are many white clouds on the ridge", the same intoxicating!
10. The wind and smoke are faint. Yellow again, white jade toad
Bai Yutoad, the founder of the Southern Sect of the Jindan sect of Taoism, wrote his poems well and produced high output, and was the first among Taoist poets. He writes lyrics occasionally and is also very artistic. Moreover, the poetry of the white jade toad is particularly close to the temperament of secular poets, and never talks much about the great principles of religion, which is very artistic. The same is true of this song "Willow Branch, Crushing Plum Blossoms and Breaking the Intestines":
Crush the plum blossom and break the intestine. Send the slanting sun.
The wind and smoke are faint. Yellow again.
Where the plain is cold, the sky is long.
Short hedge, shallow water, orange green yellow. Fragrant.
The wind and smoke are faint. Yellow again
"Crush the plum blossom and break the intestine. Send the slanting sun", the spring breeze crushed the plum blossoms, making people sad, and what was even sadder was that it was when the sun was setting.
"The wind is misty and the moon is faint. and dusk", looking around, the wind and smoke in front of you, the eyes are ethereal, the moon is very vast, and it is hazy, and dim orange.
"Where the plain is cold, the sky grows", the surrounding plain is a cold weed, boundless, all the way to the sky.
"Short fence, shallow water, orange and yellow. Degree of fragrance", I am surrounded by a short fence, surrounded by shallow flowing water, orange blossoms on the orange trees in the fence bloom with green and yellow flowers, the fragrance wafts in, making people intoxicated!
In this poem, the poet describes the situation in the evening of spring: the plum blossoms fall, which is heartbreaking, because the plum blossoms symbolize the poet's purity; And the wild vastness and ethereal make the poet have a little heart, especially the fragrance of orange blossoms, which makes the poet most intoxicated. The poet is the founder of Nanzong, but psychologically he is so worldly that people especially love this lovely old Taoist!