Yuan Mei s The Story of the Three Waterfalls in Western Zhejiang translation

Three Waterfalls in Western Zhejiang, (Qing) Yuan Mei.

What's more, the talent of creation is also! The same water from a high down, and three waterfalls in western Zhejiang, three different waterfalls, no duplicate pen.

Ren Yin is old, Yu You Tiantai stone beams, the four sides of the people (1), the heavy ones (2), all ring sorghum shade (3). The beam is two zhang long, three feet wide, if the ridge crosses the mountainside, it is embedded in the air. The water comes from Huading (4), stacked in four layers, and meets so far, like ten thousand horses forming a team, running through the beams.

Whoever is scratched by a stone will be angry, and he will cry out in anger. With the momentum of falling a thousand feet, it is blocked by the crowd (5), and naturally it is angry and depressed (6), the noise is thunderous, and people are relatively inferior to the words. Sitting on the stone beam, it is like riding on the waterfall.

Walking at the foot of the mountain and looking up, the droplets splash on the top, the eyes are dazzling, and the sitting and standing can not be firm, and it is suspected that this body will go away with the water. The temple on the waterfall is said to be wide above, and the lower temple is said to be wide below. With the love of the waterfall, then two nights.

Ten days later, to the big dragon of the wild goose. Before three miles away, a horse practiced from the world, and there was no sound. And before the truth, then more than 20 zhang is a waterfall, less than 20 zhang is not a waterfall, all turned into smoke, for fog, for light silk, for jade dust, for beads, for glass silk, for poplar white flowers (7).

It is both falling and rising; It is both sparse and densely woven. The wind shakes it, and it drifts away; The sun shines, and the five colors are beautiful. or stand far away and wet its head, or force your eyes to look at it without clothes.

Therefore, because the place is too high, the belly of the cliff is hollow, there is no evidence, and it has to be illusioned with the wind; It is rarely contradicted, and it cannot be cheered on, and it is not similar to the stone beam. Mostly Shiliangwu, Long Shuwen; The stone beams are noisy, and the dragon is quiet; The stone beam is urgent, and the dragon is slow; The stone beam rushes forward, and the dragon is like going back and forth: this is why it is different.

When I first looked at the stone beam, I thought that the waterfall was not enough, and the dragon could not be reached. And at this point, and then know that what is beyond the reach of the ears and eyes, can not be speculated.

In the second half of the month, after the stone gate cave of Qingtian (8), although the suspected creation is ingenious, it can no longer be cunning (9). It is a waterfall in a stone cave, like a giant mussel opening its mouth, which can swallow hundreds of people. The pond at the waterfall is more than one acre wide, hundreds of zhang deep, the suspected mosquito dragon wants to rise, and the sound of agitation is like the bell and drum in the urn (10).

This is also the stone beam, the dragon does not have.

In the past, people said: "Those who read "Yi" are like "poems", those who read "poems" are like no "books", and those who read "poems", "Yi" and "books" are like no "Book of Rites" and "Spring and Autumn". "The three waterfalls in western Zhejiang are also believed.

So: So, the meaning, the original sentence is "to love the waterfall, then two nights." "I loved the waterfall so much that I stayed at both temples.

The Story of the Three Waterfalls in Western Zhejiang is a travelogue by the Qing Dynasty poet and essayist Yuan Mei, written in 1782 A.D. (the 47th year of Qianlong). This article describes the landscape of the three waterfalls of Tiantai Stone Beam, Yandang Dalonghu and Qingtian Shimen Cave, and depicts the characteristics of the three waterfalls from many aspects such as vision, hearing, and feeling.

The writing is beautiful and delicate, and the writing is simple and rich in connotation. Yuan Mei advocated concise and literary articles, and this travelogue is the embodiment of his creative outlook.

Do you mean to ask?

With the love of the waterfall, then two nights.

I liked the waterfall so I stayed for two nights.

So, that's it.

1；It's amazing, nature's handiwork! They are all water flowing from high to low, but the three waterfalls in western Zhejiang have three different scenes, and there is nothing in common at all.

2；In the past, someone said: "When you read "Zhou Yi", it seems that there is no "Book of Songs", when you read "Book of Songs", it seems that there is no "Four Books", and when you read "Book of Songs", "Zhou Yi", and "Four Books", it seems that "The Book of Rites" and "Spring and Autumn" do not exist (the overall meaning is that the styles of these books are completely different). "After I saw the three waterfalls in western Zhejiang, I thought it was true.