"Birdsong Stream" is a poem by Wang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

Full poem: People are idle, osmanthus flowers are falling, the night is quiet and the spring mountains are empty. The moonrise scares the mountain birds, and they sing in the spring stream.

Translation: There is no sound, the fragrant osmanthus flowers are falling gently. The green mountains and green forests look even more empty. The bright moon rises, startling a few roosting mountain birds. The crisp chirping echoes in the empty mountain stream for a long time.

Wang Wei, a famous poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty, had the courtesy name Mojie and the name Mojie layman. He was known as "Wang Youcheng" in the world. Because he believed in Buddhism, he was known as the "Poetry Buddha". There are more than 400 poems in existence today, and important poems include "Lovesickness" and "Dwelling in the Mountains in the Twilight of Autumn". He was greatly influenced by Zen Buddhism and was proficient in Buddhism, poetry, calligraphy, painting, music, etc. Together with Meng Haoran, he was known as "Wang Meng". Su Shi commented on it: "When you taste Mojie's poems, there are paintings in the poems; when you look at Mojie's paintings, there are poems in the paintings."

Poetry Appreciation:

About this poem Osmanthus fragrans, there are quite some differences of opinion. One explanation is that there are different types of osmanthus such as spring flowers, autumn flowers, and four-season flowers. The one written here should be the one that blooms in spring. Another opinion is that literary and artistic creation does not necessarily have to copy life. It is said that Wang Wei's painting "Yuan An Lying in the Snow" has green bananas in the snow. Things that cannot appear at the same time in real life are in literary and artistic creation. allowed. However, this poem is one of the "Five Miscellaneous Poems of Huangfu Yue Yunxi" written by Wang Wei about his friend's residence.