Chinese poems · 苏轼 Su Shi · Song dynasty
题西林壁 Written on the Wall at West Forest Temple
Mount Lu looks like a ridge from one side and a peak from another, and you can’t see its true face from inside it: a poem about seeing anything clearly.
横看成岭侧成峰，
From the front, a ridge; from the side, a peak;
远近高低各不同。
near or far, high or low, each view is different.
不识庐山真面目，
I can’t see Mount Lu’s true face
只缘身在此山中。
only because I am inside the mountain.
What does 题西林壁 mean?
题西林壁 is “Written on the Wall at West Forest Temple”. Mount Lu looks like a ridge from one side and a peak from another, and you can’t see its true face from inside it: a poem about seeing anything clearly.
What is the pinyin of 题西林壁?
héng kàn chéng lǐng cè chéng fēng / yuǎn jìn gāo dī gè bù tóng / bù shí lú shān zhēn miàn mù / zhǐ yuán shēn zài cǐ shān zhōng.
Who wrote 题西林壁?
Su Shi (苏轼), a poet of the Song dynasty.
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Poems over a thousand years old; the English and pinyin are ours, the pinyin as Chinese schools teach it.