Meaning: the sun shines on the incense burner peak to produce curls of purple smoke, and the waterfall looks like a long river hanging in front of the mountain from afar.
This line is from "Looking at Mount Lushan Waterfalls", which was written by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty
Originally:
The sun shines on the incense burner and gives birth to purple smoke, and from afar I can see the waterfalls hanging in front of the river.
Flying down three thousand feet, suspected to be the Milky Way falling into the nine heavens.
Vernacular translation:
The sun shines on the Fragrance Furnace Peak, giving rise to purple smoke, and the waterfall looks like a long river hanging in front of the mountain from afar. It is as if three thousand feet of water is flying straight down, could it be that the Milky Way is hanging down between the cliffs from the nine heavens.
Expanded Information:
This poem is generally believed to have been written by Li Bai when he first visited Mount Lu on his way to Jinling, around the thirteenth year of the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (725). According to Prof. Wu Xiaoru, Li Bai's two poems are of different genres and partly repetitive in content, so it is suspected that they were not written at the same time. Mr. Zhan Tinkle, in his "Li Bai's Poetry and Literature", based on Ren Hua's "Miscellaneous Words Sent to Li Bai" poem, believes that the first five poems were written by Li Bai before he entered Chang'an in the Kaiyuan era.
Li Bai's life is good into the famous mountain tour in the beautiful landscapes of Mount Lu, showing the poet's name of the aura. Its imagination is rich, whimsical, magnificent, unrestrained feelings, like the river rushing, but also natural and fresh, like the clouds rolled wind clear, the aesthetic characteristics of its poetry is natural beauty, honesty and unrestrained freedom of beauty. These two poems have such aesthetic characteristics.