Drinking on the lake after the first sunny rain · the second

【Author】 Song Su Shi

The water is bright and sunny, and the mountains are full of rain and rain.

If you want to put the West Lake than the West Lake, light makeup is always appropriate.

paraphrase:

The scenery is enchanting when the water waves flash on a sunny day,

The mountains are also magical in the confused smoke and rain.

If you compare West Lake to the beautiful Xi Shi,

She is always beautiful no matter how light makeup she is.

On sunny days with rippling water, the scenery is really good, and the scenery on rainy days with smoke and rain confusion is even more peculiar. If you compare West Lake to Xi Shi, whether she is dressed in a light and elegant outfit or a rich dress, it is the same radiant.

This is a poem praising the beauty of the West Lake, written by Su Shi, during the poet's tenure in Hangzhou.

This poem is a comprehensive description of the beauty of the West Lake, the first two sentences not only write about the water, light and mountains, but also write about the sunny and rainy state of the West Lake. The last two sentences use a metaphorical rhetorical technique, comparing West Lake to the beautiful Xi Shi, saying that it is the same as Xi Shi as the ultimate of the spirit and beauty of the world. The Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Wenhuan called it a famous passage in the "Compilation and Annotation of Su Wenzhonggong's Poems".

Su Shiqiren

Su Shi (8 January 1037 – 24 August 1101), a native of Meishan, Meizhou (present-day Meishan, Sichuan), was a famous writer, politician, artist, and physician during the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi Zhan, Yi Zi He Zhong, Dongpo Resident, Tieguan Daoren.

In the literary world of the Song Dynasty, Su Shi was a god-like being. Whether it is poetry, words, books, paintings, prose, everything is universal. Su Shi's life has ups and downs, ups and downs, but he looks at everything with a calm heart.

Su Shi left a large number of masterpieces in his lifetime. And he himself is also an incomparably interesting person: he is ranked among the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties; he created the Shangyi calligraphy style; his "Wooden stone map" is worth 400 million; he wrote and directed the Dingzhou Yangge; he was the god of the magic hand cook; he trained the first person in the history of Hainan; he founded the earliest folk relief hospital in China...

Lin Yutang recounted in "The Biography of Su Dongpo" that Su Dongpo was an incorrigible optimist, a great humanitarian, a friend of the people, a great literary hero, a great calligrapher, an innovative painter, a wine-making experimenter, an engineer, a person who hated Puritanism, a yogi Buddhist, a giant Confucian politician, an emperor's secretary, a wine immortal, a generous judge, and a person who was politically opposed. A night wanderer, a poet, a clown. But this is not enough to tell the whole story of Su Dongpo... Su Dongpo has more of a multifaceted genius's sense of richness, change, and humor than other Chinese poets, with excellent intelligence and a naïve heart—a mixture equal to jesus' so-called serpent wisdom plus the gentleness of a dove.

The reason why life is less happy is only because I have not read Su Dongpo.