Original text:
Crows fell on the moon, crowed coldly, slept on maple trees, and slept in fishing lanes by the river.
In the lonely Hanshan Temple outside Suzhou, the bell that rang in the middle of the night reached the passenger ship.
Translation:
At the setting of the moon, crows crow and it is cold all over the sky. Facing the maple trees on the river and the fishing fires on the boat, I am sad and sleepless.
In Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the bell ringing in the middle of the night reached my passenger ship.
Precautions:
1. Qiao Feng: Outside Nagato, Suzhou.
2. Berthing at night: Berthing the boat at the shore at night.
3. Wuti: When it comes to crowing, it is Wuti Town.
4. Frost all over the sky: frost can't be all over the sky, and the word "frost" should be understood as severe cold; Frost is the image language of extremely cold air.
5. Jiang Feng: generally interpreted as "riverside maple", Jiang refers to Wusong River, which originates from Taihu Lake, flows through Shanghai and flows into the Yangtze River, commonly known as Suzhou River. Some people think it refers to "Jiangcun Bridge" and "Qiao Feng Bridge". "Qiao Feng" is located in the western suburb (Liuhe Gate) outside the south gate of Wuxian County. Its real name is "Qiao Feng", but it was changed to "Qiao Feng" because of this poem by Zhang Ji.
6. Fishing fire: Generally speaking, "fishing fire" is the lamp on the fishing boat; Some people say that "fishing fire" is actually a fishing partner.
7. Worried about sleep: This sentence means worried about sleep, personifying the words Jiang Feng and Yu Huo. However, people who don't understand poetry in later generations doubt how Jiang Feng can sleep on fire, so he attached a sentence saying that sleep on sorrow is the name of the mountain opposite Hanshan Temple.
8. Gusu: another name for Suzhou, named after Gusu Mountain in the southwest of the city.
9. Hanshan Temple: Near Qiao Feng, it was built in the Southern Liang Dynasty. According to legend, it was named after Hanshan, a monk who lived here in the Tang Dynasty. In Xifengqiao Town, Suzhou today. The real name is Miaoliping Pagoda, also known as Qiao Feng Temple; Another way of saying it, "Cold Mountain" refers to Cold Mountain, not the name of the temple. The temple has been rebuilt several times and is now newly built after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The temple bell was transported away by the Japanese army during World War II, and its whereabouts are unknown.
10. Midnight bell: Today's Buddhist temples ring bells in the middle of the night (Spring Festival), but they used to ring bells in the middle of the night, which is also called "impermanent bell" or "minute". Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, once questioned: "Poets are so greedy for good sentences that it doesn't make sense. This is a problem in writing articles, such as Zhang Ji's poem "The Midnight Bell Knocks on a Passenger Ship". Although the sentence is good, is it reasonable to ring the bell at midnight? " However, after many people's field visits, I learned that Buddhist temples in Suzhou and surrounding areas have the custom of knocking at midnight.