苍苍横翠微

蒼蒼橫翠微
cāngcāng héng cuìwēi
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 a dark-green haze stretches across the mountain slopes
  2. 2 the canonical image of distant, misty summer mountains
  3. 3 (lit.) dark-green, lying-across, green-haze-of-the-hillside

Examples

HSK 7-9
登高远望只见群山苍苍横翠微
Dēnggāo yuǎnwàng, zhǐjiàn qúnshān cāngcāng héng cuìwēi.
Climbing high and gazing far, I saw only the ranges 'stretching in dark-green mist.'
HSK 7-9
Qīngchén de Huángshān, yúnwù liáorào, zhēnshì cāngcāng héng cuìwēi.
The Yellow Mountains at dawn, wrapped in mist - truly 'a dark-green haze lying across the slopes.'

Tips

history
From 李白《下终南山过斛斯山人宿置酒》 (Tang, c. 740s): 暮从碧山下山月随人归却顾所来径苍苍横翠微 (At dusk I descend the jade mountain; the mountain moon follows me home. Looking back at the path I came by, dark-green haze lies across the green slopes). Li Bai's quiet landscape mode, far from the wine-and-exile persona.
usage
翠微 is a rare literary word - the green mist at the mountain's mid-level, not quite the summit. 苍苍 = deep blue-green (reduplicated). here as a verb = to lie across. Inseparable from 却顾所来径 as the famous couplet.

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