It was an encounter of nearly 270 years, one full of spirits and one full of ambition. They all left footprints for the West Lake that the world will always remember, and chanted the most beautiful poems in the world.
01 Walking green poplar yin
In 822 AD, Bai Juyi came to Hangzhou to do the History of Hangzhou Thorn. After drinking and meeting friends, ride a horse to swim in the West Lake. It is an early spring day, the water and the sky are connected, the clouds and waters are connected, the lake is full of embankments, and the spring breeze is harmonious. Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, saw a picturesque scenery in front of his eyes, and he did not feel that poetry surged into his heart:
Gushan Temple north of Jia Ting West, the water surface of the initial flat cloud foot low.
A few early warblers compete to warm the trees, and whose new swallows peck at the spring mud.
The flowers are becoming more and more attractive to the eye, and asakusa can have no horseshoes.
Favorite lake eastbound is insufficient, green poplar shade in the white sand embankment.
"Gushan Temple north jia ting west, the water surface is low at the beginning of the clouds." The poet placed the location of the beautiful view of the lake in the north of the Lonely Mountain Temple, which is condescending and full of eyes, and the view of the West Lake can be seen. The lake in early spring, because of the arrival of the rainy season, has been level with the lake embankment, looking like a flat mirror spread out, quiet as a virgin, beautiful as jasper, the distant white clouds are connected with the lake, and reflected in the lake: clouds, water, and heaven are integrated, this is the West Lake of paradise on earth.
"A few early warblers compete to warm the trees, and whose new swallows peck at the spring mud." View the lake, the beauty of the lake. Listen to the sound. The singer of spring, the yellow warbler, has begun to sing, flying and perching among the graceful green weeping willows by the lake, which is the most beautiful natural sound of spring. Look again: the new swallows that fly in, busy between heaven and earth, pecking at the new mud of spring everywhere, building nests and nests. This is the most vibrant beauty of spring.
"The flowers are becoming more and more attractive to the eye, and asakusa can have no horseshoes." Riding a horse, the yellow and tender grass has just grown, looking at one piece after another, green people's state of mind, beautiful people's eyes. This short grass just lost the horse's front hoof, and this little grass is the gospel and vitality of spring beauty.
Look at it again: a hundred flowers are in full bloom, bees and butterflies are dancing, just intoxicating people's eyes and moods. Flowers add to the romantic beauty of this lake.
"I love the lack of eastbound lakes, and the white sand embankment in the shade of green poplars." At this moment, the poet either stopped and stood, or rode on horseback, drunk and addicted by the spring of this Qiantang Lake. On the white sand embankment in the shade of the green poplar, the willow swings gracefully, making the poet refuse to leave.
Bai Juyi mobilizes various senses, transforms different angles, and writes the beauty of the water, birds, flowers, grasses and trees of the West Lake with great vitality and beauty. This is a newcomer, full of joy. Because Hangzhou is a paradise on earth, the West Lake is the soul of Hangzhou's beauty. As a new envoy of Hangzhou, he wanted to make a great achievement, so he was full of vigor and joy, and he achieved this ancient beautiful poem, a beautiful lake.
People must have eyes to discover beauty, Bai Juyi has done it, and it is meticulous and aesthetically extreme!
02 Rafting on West Lake
In 1089 AD, a poet came to the shore of the West Lake. He is not the delicate Bai Juyi, but the open-minded and uninhibited Su Dongpo.
Su Shi came to Hangzhou, far away from the disputes of the court, and temporarily gained peace and relief in his soul that he had never had before. Looking for Zen, watching and playing, coming to the West Lake, the sky is clear after the rain, the boating is quiet like a virgin on the West Lake, the poetry is flourishing, and the 28 words that no one can match are picked up:
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.
"The water is bright and sunny, and the mountains are full of rain and rain." West Lake is very beautiful all year round, wind, frost, rain and snow. On a sunny day, the sun shines, and the West Lake is sparkling and looks beautiful. On rainy days, the smoke and rain are cloudy, and the mountains around the West Lake are very wonderful. "The mountain color is empty and rainy" particularly emphasizes the beauty of the West Lake after the rain. The beauty of this West Lake after the rain is incomparable, and I really don't know what to compare it to.
Alas, it is better to compare it to a Xishi beauty. Zhuji, Zhejiang is Xi shi's hometown, not far from Hangzhou, perhaps because Xi Shi occasionally visits, Huansha West Lake, West Lake has such a wonderful. Whether it is rainy or snowy, it has its peculiar charm, no matter how light makeup or heavy makeup, it has its addictive charm.
Spring West Lake, warbling song and swallow dance, willow wave smelling warblers, a hundred flowers competing for beauty; summer West Lake, sun-reflecting lotus flowers, lotus leaves field; autumn West Lake, white clouds reflected, Thunder Peak Sunset, Pinghu Lake autumn moon; winter West Lake, snow covered with snow, broken bridge residual snow, lake heart tea drinking. Throughout the year, the West Lake is beautiful with different beauty, giving the warmest and most beautiful feeling in the world.
Su Shi did not focus on one scene, and on the whole, with the stroke of God, wrote the beauty of the West Lake. Therefore, Wang Wenchen said in the "Su WenzhongGong Poetry Compilation and Integration" that this poem is a "famous passage" written in the West Lake" of "no ancients before and no one after".
Since then, the West Lake has achieved the reputation of "West Lake". And Su Dongpo dredged the West Lake, placed the "Three Pools Printing Moon", and left the "Spring Dawn of the Su Causeway". Let the beauty of the West Lake add beauty.
When Su Shi left Beijing, he was already ostracized, but the beauty of the West Lake made this poet who had always been open-minded and full of ambition in Hangzhou, rafting and enjoying, composing poetry and drinking, repairing the embankment and planting willows, and living the most comfortable days in his life!
epilogue
In the past 270 years, Bai Juyi has achieved the spring of the West Lake, Su Shi has achieved the four seasons of the West Lake, and they have jointly achieved the West Lake of the Millennium.
The beauty of the West Lake is in the scenery, the beauty is in the poetry, the beauty is in the people, the beauty is in the love! The West Lake has endless scenery, endless poetry, countless celebrities, and endless human beauty!