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Me Yi, Gender: Female, Original Name: Shao Min. Graduated from the Anhui Writers' Training Class of Lu Xun Academy of Literature. Member of Anhui Writers' Association, Member of Anhui Prose Writers' Association, Member of Chinese Poetry Association. Has published several poems, essays, and reviews. Works have been published in "Poetry Magazine", "Sunshine", "Poetry Monthly", "Western Prose Selection", etc.

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Three Scrolls of Dragon Palace (Group of Poems)

Anhui / Me Yi

In the belly of Guizhou, the throat of Yunnan

1.

The ancient dragon was born, writing the dragon's veins of China

Weave nets, create lunar calendars, compose music

A bolt of lightning crossed through "Shan Hai Jing"

It became the prophecy for the founders of later generations

The dragon is a divine creature. Heaven, can it be so meager as the light of the sky

Under the earth, it can overturn seas and rivers

In the vast southwest of China, a silver-white curtain is hung

After that, true mountains, true water, and true dragon faces emerged

The underground dragon palace stretching for three thousand meters, with caves within caves

Courtyards outside courtyards. Courtyards connected to caves, caves following courtyards

Guided, contacted, and integrated by the hands of water

The ancestors living on the dragon veins

Sowed rice, also sowed civilization

They were diligent and intelligent, doing batik, embroidery, bamboo weaving

Girls conveyed emotions through leaves, sang poems and performed Bouyei Opera

The Eight-Note Platform is another "living fossil" outside the dry cave

-- The largest cave in the world is in the sky

Countless stone tiles, stone walls, stone doors and windows

Are stone stalactites, stone pillars, stone flowers, and stone curtains growing on the ground

All stones and plants are adjacent, all gods and civilization are integrated

Ordinary days, the landscape is appropriately detailed, the stone edges and corners are distinct

Waterfalls are the splashing and ascension of passion

The dry cave is a scattered village of stones

It takes a different path, reproduces and thrives on the underground dragon veins

2.

The supreme virtue is like water; water nourishes all things without competing.

The dragon's palace houses a copy of the "Tao Te Ching".

Small streams flow silently to form cave rivers, while large ones rush with great force to become waterfalls.

Water is the source of life and the eyes of all things.

The dragon can hide and reveal, be mysterious and clear, be large and small, rise and descend.

The various waters have learned to meander and wind their way through secluded paths.

In the dragon's palace - 

The dragon is water, and water is the dragon.

The spirit of the dragon lies in water, embracing all life.

The spirit of water lies in flowing into and out of valleys, then diving in and emerging again.

Water turns into a dragon, moving among twenty or so mountains.

It either drills through rocks and splits them, or breathes out clouds and emits smoke.

More dragon veins emerge from and enter the caves - 

A young man rides an emerald dragon horse, holds a green dragon sword, crosses the Longquan River, passes the Dragon Pool.

He either stands on the steep cliffs or leaps across the dark river.

It is colorful and unpredictable, cycling repeatedly.

A subterranean dragon palace over a thousand meters deep, how many more than eighteen palaces?

Countless stalactites hide in the

areas with the lowest radiation on the earth.

The descendants of the dragon, the dragon sons and grandsons, rush to it like waterfalls.

3.

Under the vast sky, all the creatures on the earth

With water and humans, they have become what they are

Rape flowers, broad beans, black glutinous rice seedlings, rice

Spring and autumn take turns to work.

With one hand, an individual character is created. A myth is told.

A rich and magnificent Asian first dragon

A single character, enlarged to over 80,000 square meters

A huge dragon roars out from the mountains and forests

From serenity to magnificent momentum

Becoming an absolutely beautiful dragon character painting spread across the land of China

The descendants of the dragon, should live like a dragon

The spirit of the dragon, like the calligraphy of Huaisu on the water fields

In the great miracle of nature

Continuing the great miracle of mankind

Making friends with the mountains and waters, and chatting with the plants

Those who are in the rape lake, splash the ink of the mountain light and water color

They themselves also become part of the mountain light and water color.

Guanyin Cave

The Buddha Dharma is boundless and omnipresent.

Passing through caves and the ancient, serene sounds of the bells and incense smoke,

In the Buddhist hall of the earth, people walk with utmost devotion.

Approaching and yearning,

To understand the Buddha nature of a single drop of water on the stalactites.

Nature is great.

The temple is the cave, and the cave is the temple.

Nature is magnificent.

It bestows destiny and mission upon people and all things.

In the dry cave, every person who comes to pay homage

Serves a temple

Believes in their own Guanyin.

Nature endows a stone with purity and dignity.

People bestow upon it spirit.

People conform to nature, and also carve and adorn nature.

But they can only carve a part of nature.

Like in over 90 water and dry caves,

People offer 32 statues of stalactites as a subtraction,

And then pray and repent by adding to the stone-like body.

Many unenlightened stones, the scriptures in their bones,

People are the same, following the twists and turns in the cave,

And there is a calm heart in the steepness.

All beings can become Buddhas. People are complex entities.

Paying homage and being paid homage, carving and being carved, stopping and moving, coming and going,

A handful of clean water, washing away dust and dirt, praying for good luck.

How many people put their hands together, facing a wise big vat,

Their hearts dripping with Buddhist sounds.

The philosophy of Xuan Tang:

The water comes up from the sky and descends to the earth. It turns.

Xuan Tang is the water drunk inebriated by the Dragon Palace. It turns through caves, canyons, and stone forests,

It also turns waterfalls, cliffs, and hidden rivers.

It does not lose its direction and never stops.

It is inebriated but also conforms to the law of nature, rotating clockwise. After inebriation, it reveals its true nature.

Inebriation and awakening are the unity of opposites.

The water awakens. The boat sails in the river, and the person is intoxicated in the painting.

Tan Long chooses to lie prone,

Bai Long chooses to ascend in a spiral.

-- The dragon path is also the human path, and everything.

Each follows its own path, yet also accommodates each other.

The path is the simplest. The mountain does not turn, but the water turns.

Time passes in the morning bells and evening drums, cycling endlessly.

The heart does not turn, but the mind turns. There is no water that cannot flow out.

The water body flows smoothly, after which

Green water holds up the green mountains, rice holds up the sunlight.

The shepherd boy blows out a high blue. Afterwards

The road stretches towards the horizon, and deep within the ten-thousand-mountain range, it surpasses the beauty of the southland.