The original text is as follows:
Without words, I went to the West Building alone, and the moon was like a hook. Lonely phoenix tree deep courtyard locks clear autumn.
if you keep cutting, you will lose your mind, which means leaving your sorrow. It's not just a general taste.
—— Five Dynasties Li Yu's "Meeting Huan, Going to the West Wing without Words"
Translation:
Silent and lonely, I slowly climbed to the empty West Wing alone. Looking up at the sky, there was only a crooked Leng Yue. Looking down, I saw the buttonwood tree isolated in the courtyard, and the deep courtyard was shrouded in the cold and desolate autumn colors.
I can't keep cutting, and I can't make sense of it. What makes people feel confused is the pain of national subjugation. That long sorrow is entangled in my heart, but it is another kind of indescribable pain.
Note:
① Locking the autumn: deeply covered by autumn colors. Clear autumn, a late autumn.
② cut, one for headland.
③ sadness of leaving: it refers to the worry of going to the country.
④ other than ordinary: it has another meaning. Don't be, don't be.
Creative background:
In p>975 (the eighth year of opening the treasure), the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed by the Song Dynasty, and Li Yu was defeated by his family and country, leaving his flesh bare, and he was imprisoned in Bianjing to be punished. Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu, because Li Yu had refused to defend the city, named him "disobedient". Li Yu was poisoned by Song Taizong Zhao Huan after living as a prisoner for three years. Li Yu is not a good emperor, but a talented artist and poet. Li Yu's poems are divided into two periods, one is about being captured, and the other is about describing court life and relationships with men and women. In his later poems, he poured out the pain and thoughts of losing his country, which was sad and touching. Meet You Huan is a very representative one in his later works.
Poet's introduction:
Li Yu, the monarch of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, was in office from 961 to 975. His first name was Cong Jia, and his first name was Zhong Yin and Lian Feng lay man. Han nationality, born in Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu). Li Jing, the sixth son of Yuan Zong in the Southern Tang Dynasty, succeeded to the throne in the second year of Song Jianlong (961). In the eighth year of Kaibao, Song Jun broke the capital of Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu fell to Song Dynasty, and was captured to Bianjing, where he was made a general and disobeyed orders. Later, he was poisoned by Song Taizong because of the noun "Yu Meiren" which was used to cherish the motherland. Although Li Yu doesn't know politics, his artistic talent is extraordinary. He is good at calligraphy, painting, intonation, poetry and writing, especially ci. The masterpieces of the ages, such as Yu Meiren, Langtaosha, and Wu Yeti, etc. Li Yu, who failed in politics, left an immortal chapter in the field of ci, and was called the "Emperor of Ci through the ages".
Reference
Wang Zhongwen. Revision of Two Main Words in Southern Tang Dynasty. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 27.