Poetry of Mountain Villages is a poem by Shao Yong, a philosopher in the Northern Song Dynasty. Through the expression of brocade, this poem arranges the scenes of smoky villages, people's homes, pavilions and flowers together to form an idyllic landscape, creating an elegant artistic conception and expressing the poet's love and praise for nature.
Yonghuai village
Author: Shao Yong
At first glance, it is two or three miles away, and mist hangs over four or five families.
The pavilions are six or seven, and the flowers bloom in eighty or ninety.
Vernacular translation
At first glance, two or three miles away, mist enveloped four or five families.
There are six or seven pavilions beside the village, and many flowers are in full bloom.