Du Mu, author of Autumn Night? Tang dynasty.
In the autumn night, candlelight reflected the screen, and Fan slapped the fireflies with his hand.
The stone steps at night are as cold as cold water, sitting and staring at the cowherd and the weaver girl.
Translation:
In the autumn night, candlelight reflects the painting screen and beats fireflies with a small fan. The stone steps at night are as cold as cold water, sitting in the bedroom staring at the cowherd and the weaver girl.
Appreciate:
Autumn Evening is a seven-character quatrain (Wang Jian's work) written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, and it is a poem of palace resentment. This poem describes a lonely maid-in-waiting, looking up at the cowherd and weaver girl on both sides of the Tianhe River on Tanabata night, fanning fireflies from time to time to dispel loneliness, reflecting the unfortunate fate of court women and showing a lonely mood of a maid-in-waiting.
This poem is about the loneliness and bitterness of a frustrated girl's life. The first two sentences have painted a picture of life in the palace. On an autumn night, the silvery white candle gives off a faint light, adding a dim and cold tone to the picture on the screen. At this time, a lonely maid-in-waiting was flapping the flying fireflies with a small fan.
The ancients said that rotten grass turned fireflies into fireflies. Although unscientific, fireflies are always born in those desolate places between grass graves. Nowadays, there are fireflies flying in the courtyard where maids live, and the bleak life of maids can be imagined.