Monday, May 18, 2009

月出驚山鳥,時鳴春澗中

王維 〈鳥鳴澗〉

人閑桂花落,夜靜春山空;
月出驚山鳥,時鳴春澗中。

It is the “最高境界” of “山水詩篇” in the Chinese poetry history.
No wander he was often called "田園詩人", and his poetry works
praised as “詩中有畫”.

With the feeling of absolute peace, he could sense the flower falling.
In that serene spring night, he experienced the emptiness of
mountains. Then the rising moon quickly came to disturb and scare
the already nicely resting birds, whose intermittent cries echoed
along the quiescent mountain creek.

This is one of my most favorite Chinese classical poems.

Yeh Tze

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