I love the grass growing beside the stream, and the orioles singing in the deep trees. This sentence comes from "Chuzhou West Stream" by Wei Yingwu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The original text is as follows:

The lonely grassy stream grows beside it, and there are orioles singing in the deep trees.

The spring tide brings rain late in the day, and there is no boat crossing the wild river.

Translation:

I love the quiet grass growing by the stream, and the orioles singing in the deep trees.

The spring tide carries the rapids of the evening rain, and only the unmanned boat is traversing the middle of the river.

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Creative background

The poem "Chuzhou West Stream" was written by Wei Yingwu in the second year of Jianzhong (781) of Tang Dezong when he was appointed governor of Chuzhou. . He often walked alone in the suburbs, and Chuzhou Xijian was a place he often visited. The author loved the quiet scenery of Xijian. He visited Chuzhou Xijian (in the western suburbs of Chuzhou City) one day and wrote this poetic poem.

This is a short poem about scenery, describing what I saw during a spring trip to Chuzhou’s West Stream to enjoy the scenery and the rainy Yedu in the late tide. The first two sentences describe the spring scene, loving the quiet grass and valuing the oriole, which is a metaphor for keeping the festival and being jealous of the beauty; the last two sentences describe the scene of the spring tide with rain and the rushing water, which contains a feeling of being out of place and unable to do so. Its use is helpless sadness. The whole poem expresses the tranquility and sadness.