Original text:
A berth on the Qinhuai River
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
Author: Du Mu
Smoke cage cold water moon cage sand, night parking near Qinhuai restaurant.
Strong women in business don't know how to hate their country, but they still sing backyard flowers across the river.
Translation:
Haze pervades the vast cold river, and the moon shines on the white sand house. In the evening, I parked my boat by Qinhuai River, near the restaurant. It seems that Jinling Genv doesn't know what the hatred of national subjugation is, but he is still singing the lewd song "Flowers in Yushu Back Garden" on the other side.
Precautions:
(1) from von Fan Chuan's collected works (Volume 4). (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House 1978 Edition). Qinhuai River, that is, Qinhuai River, originates in the mountainous area between damao mountain in Jurong, Jiangsu Province and Lushan in Lishui East, and flows into the Yangtze River via Nanjing. According to legend, it was dug by Qin Shihuang during his southern tour to dredge the Huaihe River, so it was called Qinhuai River.
② Berthing: Berthing.
Businesswoman: A singer who lives by singing.
④ backyard flower: the abbreviation of the song "yushu backyard flower". Emperor Chen () of the Southern Dynasties indulged in excesses and wrote this song for the sake of having fun with the beautiful women in the harem, which eventually led to national subjugation, so later generations called this song "the voice of national subjugation".