Any mountain that is deep and remote is mostly desolate, the craggy one is less tortuous, the ancient one is not enough, the big one is not enough, and the big one is not enough, and the high mountain is not enough, the stone is not enough, and the hair is withered, which is the disease of the mountain.1 Tianmu is full of gulleys, the flying streams are murmuring, like ten thousand pi yi, a perfect one. Tianmu Yingshan are all gully, flying stream murmuring, if ten thousand pi onyx, a perfect also. Stone color Cangrun, stone bone ② Oqiao, stone paths winding, stone walls horrified cliffs, the two best also. Although the valley county rock, nunnery are fine, three best also. Yu ears do not like thunder, and the sound of thunder in the sky is very small, listen to the sound of a baby, the four best also. Wake up in the morning to see the clouds, in the absolute ravine, white as sheep, rushing like waves, all the earth for the glazed sea, the tip of the mountains out of the clouds as if Ping, the five best also. However, the cloud perversion of the most infrequent, the view is very strange, non-mountain dwellers for a long time can not understand its shape; mountain trees, a few forty round, pine-shaped as a cover, not more than a few feet high, a plant straight more than 10,000 money, the six best also. The head of the fragrant tea, far better than Longjing, bamboo shoots taste like Shaoxing broken ponds, and Qingyuan over it, the seven best also. I said that the south of the river, cultivate the true place of seclusion, no more than this one, there will be out of the entanglement ③ knot room thought carry on.
Su Yi live the next day, the morning to see the clouds, after the Si climbed to the top of the peak, the peak of the evening stayed dead pass. The next day by the living buried nunnery to find the old road and down. A few days of eyewitnesses clear up very, mountain monks thought different, downhill rate of congratulations. Mountain monks more than four hundred people, very respectful, scrambling to rice to persuade. On the way out, the monks into said: "deserted mountain secluded small, not enough when the giant eye, how?" Yu said: "Tianmu Mountain, such as some also have some points ④, mountain monks do not have to be too modest, I do not dare to honor." He laughed and said goodbye. (Yuan Hongdao, "Tianmu", from the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House, "Ancient Poetry Appreciation of Jing Chu")
Notes: ①Disease: ailments, defects. ② bone: quality, style.
Notes: ①Sickness: defects. The first is that the first is the one of the most important thing in the world, and the second is the one of the most important thing in the world.
In the field of poetry and prose of the late Ming Dynasty, the "Public Security School" was the most powerful, and its representatives were the three brothers Yuan Zongdao, Yuan Hongdao, and Yuan Zhongdao, who were the people of Public Security in Hunan Province (now Hubei Province), and were therefore called the Public Security School. Among them, Yuan Hongdao was the most reputable and was the leader of this school. The slogan that was the core of the theory of the Public Security School was "Uniquely Expressing the Spirit of Nature".
Translation: Tianmu Mountain is so deep and beautiful that it cannot be described in words. From Shuangqingzhuang at the foot of Tianmu Mountain to the summit, the distance is about twenty miles. Generally speaking, remote mountains are mostly deserted and uninhabited; steep mountains seldom have circling and circuitous mountain paths; pale and simple mountains seldom have glorious and colorful scenery, and majestic mountains seldom have exquisite and elegant interests; so much so that if the mountain is high, it lacks running water, and if the rocks are steep, it lacks luxuriant trees; all these are the shortcomings of the mountain.
Tianmu Mountain is full of hills and ravines and gorges, and the waterfalls flow like so much white silk (pouring down), which is a masterpiece.
The color of the rocks is deep and moist, the angles of the rocks are ingenious and delicate, the paths are winding and circuitous, and the cliffs are steep and towering, which is the second best.
Though the valleys are remote and deep, and the rocks tower over the mountains, the temples are all well built, which is the third best thing.
I don't like to hear the sound of thunder, and the sound of thunder in Tianmu Mountain is so small that I hear it as if it were a baby's cry, which is the fourth best thing.
I got up early to see the clouds of Tianmu Mountain, in the cliffs, the clouds are white and pure like cotton, fluctuating and changing like waves, the whole world has become a colorful world, as if everywhere is a beautiful glaze, the peaks of each mountain protrudes above the sea of clouds, like scattered duckweed, this is the fifth best. However, the change of clouds is the most unusual, its appearance is very peculiar, if it is not a long time living in the mountains, can not fully understand the shape of the clouds.
The tall trees of Tianmu Mountain, the thick body of the tree is almost forty circumference, ("circumference" is the unit of measurement of the circumference, but exactly how much, said differently. One said five inches for the circumference, one said a foot in diameter for the circumference, also said that the length of the thumb and forefinger of the two hands together for the circumference, and said that the length of the two arms embraced for the circumference.) The pine tree has the form of an umbrella cover, the tree is only a few feet high, a tree is worth more than ten thousand dollars, this is the sixth best.
Tianmu Mountain for the first time each year picked tea aromatic, than Longjing tea more fragrant. Bamboo shoots taste like those produced in Shaoxing's Broken Pond, yet are much lighter and longer, which is the seventh best as well.
I said, the south of the Yangtze River, the study of Buddhism retreat, there is no better than the Tianmu Mountain, so the idea of returning to the mountains and forests.
We stayed one day, got up the next morning to see the clouds, climbed to the top of Tianmu Mountain after the sixth hour (nine to eleven in the morning), and at night stayed at the peak of the dead pass (the name of a place in Tianmu Mountain, famous for its perilousness). Waiting for tomorrow, I found my way up the mountain from the Living Burial Nunnery and descended down the mountain. The weather was very sunny for a few days, and the monks of the mountain temple thought it was very unusual, so they all came down to the mountain and gathered with each other to celebrate. There were more than 400 monks at the mountain temple, and they were very humble and respectful, observing the etiquette and competing to treat us to a meal. When it was time to leave, the monks said, "Tianmu Mountain is so desolate and remote that it is not enough to entertain such important guests as you, I really don't know what to do". I said, "We also have some slight affinity with Tianmu Mountain, the monks don't have to be too modest, and we don't dare to accept this kind of in-your-face praise." So the people laughed heartily, said goodbye to each other and left Tianmu Mountain.