From Sleeping in the Mountain Temple, this poem was once selected as a Chinese textbook for primary schools, and is generally considered to be the work of Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem depicts the towering buildings in the temple in an extremely exaggerated way, expressing the poet's amazement at the engineering art of ancient temples and his yearning and pursuit of immortal life.
The original text is as follows:
The tall buildings of the temple on the mountain are really high, like a hundred feet. People upstairs are like a hand that can pick off the stars in the sky.
Standing here, I dare not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in the sky.
The translation is as follows:
The high-rise building of the temple on the mountain is really high, it seems to be 100 feet. People upstairs seem to be able to pick off the stars in the sky with one hand.
Standing here, I dare not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in the sky.
Comments on the text are as follows:
(1) Accommodation: overnight.
⑵ Dangerous building: High-rise building, which refers to the temple at the top of the mountain. Danger: high. 100 feet: Fictional, not real. The buildings here are very high.
⑶ Stars: The general name for the stars in the sky.
(4) language: speaking.
Extended data:
The poet spent the night in a temple in the deep mountains, and found a high Buddhist scripture-storing building behind the temple, so he climbed it. Looking at the distance from the railing, there are many stars. Li Bai wrote this short poem about a scenic trip full of poetry.
Li Bai (70 1 ~ 762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland.
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