"Xiling" refers to "Xiling Snow Mountain" in the southwest corner of Chengdu. Why did the poet not write about Nanling or Beiling or Dongling, but mentioned the geographical location of Xiling? Just by accident?
No, in the Tang Dynasty, Buddhist culture began to prevail in China. Buddhism was introduced into China and reached its peak when Du Fu was a teenager. At that time, people's ideology, in addition to the influence of traditional Confucianism in the East, had begun to accept the influence of western Buddhist culture. According to the concept of China traditional culture, the West represents death and the East represents vitality. Buddhism calls human death nirvana, which means entering the western paradise. Confucianism is the concept of persuading people to be polite and to talk about all vitality. When Du Fu wrote this quatrain, he had resigned and was on his way back to Huanhuaxi. ……
At this moment, the reader can imagine the line of sight blocked by this "window". The "Xiling" mountain range is properly surrounded by the poet's four frames of "windows", so that our eyes stay on the upper edge of the "blue sky", the continuous "Xiling" snow line and the nearby "Liu Cui" with the poet's brush. At this time, the poet's line of sight recovered and fell on another landscape by the river outside Chai Men.
The last sentence of the poem, "Boating in Dongwu Wan Li", suddenly attracted the reader's attention from a long-term perspective to a medium-term perspective.
If the poet in the last sentence describes the scenery outside the window, then the beginning of the last sentence points out the angle of "door", and the scenery in sight has turned into an emotional hope. There is a scene in the window. In this scene, there are courtyards and Chai Men, and now there are ships moored on the river outside the door through Chai Men, which has clearly demonstrated the poet's incisive assertion that the road of life is compared to Wan Li's boating. This is the artistic feature of Chinese painting, borrowing scenery from scenery, and painting in painting. In traditional Chinese painting, landscapes are often painted in the position of "eyes", but such a finishing touch is different from splash-ink rendering. It is often more subtle in nuances, and most of the themes of this painting come from this.
If the scenery outside the "door" is regarded as a picture-in-picture of the "window" scene, it is a progressive scenery. Then the word "Bo" has a different meaning from the word "Han" in three sentences. "Berth" means parking or berthing. It is the ship that sails forever, and the beginning of sailing is always anchored. Therefore, the word "Bo" gives readers a moving expectation. The word "contain" has the meaning of containing and covering. This is a static state. The static snow for thousands of years is the innocence and loneliness of the poet's life. The poet used "snow" to express his summary of his later life, and also used "boating" to express his homesickness and patriotism.
"Wu Dong", as the general name of a region, gives people a sense of time and space as opposed to the mountain term "Xiling" in the previous sentence. This poem was written by Du Fu at the age of 54. On the third day of the first month of this year, the poet resigned from the post of shogunate and returned to his hometown in Chengdu. The poet makes full use of the scenery to show the readers two realistic States of motion and static and two situations of his own life. Therefore, Chengdu is described in the poem for reference.