One of the most famous poems about the Mid-Autumn Festival is as follows:
1. "Climbing the Tower to Look at the Moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival" by Mi Fu.
As far as the eye can see, the Huaihai Sea is as full as silver, and thousands of rainbow lights nurture the treasures of clams.
If there is no moon door in the sky, the osmanthus branches will support the westward wheel.
Translation: See the Huaihai Sea with your eyes. The vast sea is as white as silver. Under the light of thousands of rainbows, clams are pregnant with pearls. If the moon in the sky is not repaired by the seven treasures in the world, the osmanthus branches will keep growing, causing the round moon we are facing to be damaged.
Appreciation: This poem quotes two folk legends. One is that the cultivation of pearls is related to the waxing and waning of the moon. When the moon is full, clams conceive pearls. The other is that the moon is composed of seven treasures. There are often 82,000 households in the world to repair it. In this way, chanting the moon through legends adds a mythical color to the Mid-Autumn Moon, making it more charming.
2. "Two Mid-Autumn Moon Poems·Part 2" by Li Qiao.
The cold sky above Yuan Po says that the four seas are the same.
How do you know that there is no rain or wind thousands of miles away?
Translation: A bright moon rises in the night sky. They say that the moonlight is the same everywhere. How do you know that there are no violent storms thousands of miles away?
Appreciation: This five-character quatrain writes that there is moonlight here and wind and rain there. The intention is for wind and rain, not for admiring the moon. Li Qiao served as prime minister three times and was naturally very sensitive to the changes in the political arena. A bright moon in the sky shone on the earth. Everyone said that the moonlight was equally bright everywhere tonight, but who could know that thousands of miles away, there would be no rain or wind? mad.
This poem, titled Ode to the Moon, reveals a truth: things in the world are vastly different and ever-changing, and cannot all be the same. Just like the Mid-Autumn Festival night, here the bright moon is in the sky, but elsewhere it is windy and rainy.
3. Sikong Picture in "Mid-Autumn Festival".
Outside the autumn scenery, everything feels leisurely.
If there is no moon on this night, the year will be a waste of autumn.
Translation: Reciting poems in my spare time. Apart from the boundless autumn scenery, everything feels like a leisurely dream in the end. If there is no bright moon on this festive night, this year will be regarded as a wasted autumn.
Appreciation: The most wonderful thing about this poem is the word "moonless". Wang Jian's famous poem, "Tonight the moon is bright, everyone looks around, and I don't know who is missing my autumn thoughts." Because of the "moonlight", "autumn thoughts" are born. If there is "no moon", there will be no "Autumn Thoughts", and there will be few excellent works of Autumn Thoughts.
If there were no moon, it would not evoke Li Bai’s nostalgia for “looking up at the bright moon and bowing his head to think of his hometown.” It would not evoke Du Fu’s words in Chang’an Prison: “Tonight the moon is in Yanzhou, and I can only watch it alone in my boudoir.” "The thoughts of children will not lead to Su Shi's thoughts of brothers, "When will the bright moon come, ask the blue sky for wine", nor will it lead to Zhang Jiuling's thoughts of love, "When the moon rises on the sea, the end of the world is at this time."