People are idle and osmanthus falls, and the night is quiet and the spring mountain is empty.
The moonrise frightens the mountain birds, and the spring stream sings.
Wang Wei, who has reached middle age, has gone through the ups and downs of life, and is no longer as full of talent as when he was young. His works pursue refinement and simplicity, but the poems are richer in connotation and more beautiful in artistic conception.
Birdsong Stream is a very simple poem, twenty words, that reads in one go.
When people are idle, they become more and more sensitive to everything around them, and they can feel the fall of osmanthus flowers.
There is a small question here, is the osmanthus falling because people are idle? Of course not. Regardless of whether there is or not, the osmanthus will naturally fall when it is time to fall. It's just that when no one perceives it, it makes no sense for the osmanthus to fall. Can people sense the fall of osmanthus all the time? Neither is it. The poem talks about "idleness". This kind of leisure obviously refers to the heart. An impetuous person, even if there is no miscellaneous matter, may not be at peace in his heart, and naturally he will not perceive the fall of osmanthus flowers.
Therefore, the fall of osmanthus is a reflection of people's inner tranquility, and it is a real peace without worries, sorrows and worries.
Night falls, and Spring Mountain is empty. The empty mountain is a particularly favorite image in Wang Wei's poems, so what does the empty mountain mean? What is emptiness? We, the readers, imagine what emptiness would look like, and perhaps we will imagine nothingness, nothingness. However, this is not emptiness, and such emptiness does not mean anything to our hearts. Wang Wei's imaginary emptiness is the existence of things, there is a mountain in the void, the mountain will not move, it is also grand, it represents eternity, because there is eternal existence, so that emptiness is no longer a spatial concept, but has the gift of time. Such emptiness makes it easier for people to imagine and feel more easily. In other words, the image of the empty mountain is the emptiness that Wang Wei wants to express.
It's funny, because the osmanthus falls, showing "idleness", because the mountains in the night show "emptiness".
So is the mountain really empty? No, the moon came out, and the moonlight shone on the mountain, and the birds in the mountain were startled by the moonlight, thinking that the day had come, and fluttered their wings, and chirped from time to time over the mountain stream.
It's even more interesting, it turns out that the emptiness of the mountain is not empty, there are mountain birds, spring streams, bright moons, and "idle" people in the mountains.
Further, the poem mentions "stillness", is it really silent? Still not, carefully investigated, the osmanthus falling will make a subtle sound, if the sound of the osmanthus falling is easy to ignore. The chirping of birds and the sound of water in the spring stream are also sounds. The existence of these sounds does not break the existence of "stillness". Because of these sounds, "quietness" is easier to perceive and taste.
In this poem, Wang Wei tells the reader what is "idle", what is "quiet", and what is "empty" through a series of contrasts.
The ethereal nothingness of nothingness, the silence of the silence without sound. Such a state has no meaning for us and does not bring our hearts to true peace.
Wang Wei's imagery makes "emptiness" and "stillness" meaningful to us, and we can better understand the state of mind of "leisure". The world in Wang Wei's poems is something that our readers can even imagine, that is, they can all approach and even reach.
As we readers seek inner peace, we can get infinitely closer to where we want to go by reading this poem by reading Wang Wei's poem. **10,000 Fans Incentive Plan