Rewarding Cheng Yanqiu Night and Seeing Gifts at the Same Time
Han Hong
Series: Three Hundred Tang Poems
Repaying Cheng Yanqiu Night and Seeing Gifts at the Same Time
Han Hong
See the gift
The long mat is facing the wind early, and the empty city is full of moonlight.
There is a wild goose in the autumn of the galaxy, and thousands of houses are in the night with anvils and pestles.
The festival time should be late, and the heart time is already on credit.
I have always recited beautiful sentences, but I didn’t realize that I was already singing crows.
Notes
1. Guan: Bamboo mat.
2. Emptiness: Describes the pure and empty scene in autumn.
3. Anvil and pestle: a tool for pounding clothes. In ancient times, pounding clothes was mostly done on autumn nights.
Translation
Early in the morning I lay on a bamboo mat to enjoy the cool breeze.
The moonlight was rippling in the capital on a clear autumn night.
A line of autumn geese flew high across the starry sky,
The sound of pounding clothes could be heard from thousands of households.
It should be late at night when watching the festival.
It’s also late to go to bed when I miss my friends.
I just recited the beautiful words you sent me repeatedly,
Unexpectedly, the crows were croaking and the sky was getting brighter.
Appreciation
?This is a poem of reciprocity. In order to repay the poem, they stayed up all night, which shows how much they care about each other. The first half of the poem is about autumn night, full of sounds and colors. The chin is associated with the pair, especially natural and elegant. The neck couplet writes that it's late at night, and I can't fall asleep because of my heart. The last couplet contains a poem of recitation, and before I realize it, the crows are noisy at dawn, and the structure is quite tight. "One wild goose in autumn on the Milky Way, thousands of homes on the night with anvils and pestles", fresh and lively, a perfect pairing.