Chinese poem illustration: 次北固山下/ Anchored at the Foot of Beigu Mount by Wang Wan
The starter gun of Prosperous Tang Period(盛唐), the true spirit of the time, taken as motto by a premier minister of the time, and still a very popular motto for today’s Chinese. This is all this poem about.
By depicting a sailing at Yangtze river mouth, under mount Beigu, the sophisticated wording shows the long eye-sighted, confident and full of vigor Tang people, which never revived after Tang.
次北固山下
王湾
客路青山外，行舟绿水前。
潮平两岸阔，风正一帆悬。
海日生残夜，江春入旧年。
乡书何处达？归雁洛阳边。
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