This poem is "Begging for Cleverness" written by Lin Jie in the Tang Dynasty. The translation of the whole poem is as follows: Looking at the blue sky on Tanabata night, it is like seeing the cowherd and the weaver girl meet on the magpie bridge across the "Tianhe". Every household is watching the autumn moon while begging for cleverness (threading a needle on the moon), and there are tens of thousands of red lines that have passed through it.
The original text of the whole poem is as follows:
On Tanabata tonight, watch Bixiao, lead the cow and the weaver girl to cross the river bridge. ?
every family looks at the autumn moon and wears tens of thousands of red silk.
Note: Qiqiao, an ancient festival, is on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as Qixi. Blue sky refers to the boundless blue sky. Tens of thousands. There are many metaphors.
Extended information
About the author: Lin Jie (831—847) was born in Fujian and was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. When I was a child, I was very smart. At the age of six, I was able to compose poems, and when I wrote, I became a chapter. He is also good at calligraphy and chess. Pawn, only seventeen years old. Qiqiao is a famous poem written by Lin Jie, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, describing the grand occasion of folk Qixi.
On the seventh night of the seventh lunar month, it is commonly known as Tanabata, also known as Daughter's Day and Girl's Day. It is the legendary day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge across the "Tianhe". In the past, the folk activities of Tanabata were mainly begging for cleverness. The so-called begging for cleverness meant begging the Weaver Girl for a pair of skillful hands. The most common way of begging for cleverness is to put a needle on the moon. If the thread passes through the pinhole, it is called cleverness.
"On Tanabata today, watch Bixiao, lead the cowherd and the weaver girl to cross the river bridge." "Blue sky" refers to the boundless blue sky. The first two sentences describe the folk story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. The annual Tanabata Festival has come again, and people in every household can't help looking up at the vast sky. This is because this beautiful legend has touched the kind and beautiful hearts and aroused people's good wishes and rich imagination.
"Every family looks at the autumn moon and wears tens of thousands of red silk." The last two sentences explain the clever things clearly, concisely and vividly. In his poems, the poet did not specifically write out various wishes, but left room for imagination, which more and more reflected people's joy at festivals.
The poem "Begging for Cleverness" is an intensive reading text in Group 8 of Book 6 of People's Education Press. This set of teaching materials is arranged around the theme of folk stories and myths and legends. It involves well-known myths and legends, bringing students back to the joy of listening to stories told by adults when they were children, and fully feeling the rich imagination of the ancients.