Mei Huang Shi, every family was flooded by rain, and the pond was covered with green grass and frogs.
It's past midnight, and the invited guests haven't come yet. I tapped the chess pieces bored and shook the wick of an oil lamp.
The most wonderful sentence, in my personal opinion, is: knock a chess piece and fall into snuff.
"Knocking on chess pieces and landing on snuff" is only a small dynamic of the poet, but in this dynamic, it describes the poet's anxiety and expectation in detail. Because you can't play chess by yourself, you can say "knock on the chess pieces". Chess pieces are not for knocking, but for knocking, reflecting the anguish in loneliness; The word "leisure" expresses boredom, and behind this word, the poet's disappointment and anxiety are implied.
When people are lonely and anxious, they often subconsciously make a monotonous and mechanical action, such as deliberately making a noise to break the silence and dilute their worries. The poet's "knocking chess pieces" here is just such an action. "Falling into Snuff" is of course caused by playing chess, but it also euphemistically shows the situation that the wick burns for a long time and the guests wait for a long time, and the image of the poet's frustration is vividly on the paper. This detail of playing chess contains multiple meanings, including near and far, and has charm. This shows the importance of capturing typical details in artistic creation.