"Yangguan Song·Mid-Autumn Moon" is a poem written by Su Shi, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. This poem describes the pleasure of the author and his brother Su Che's reunion after a long absence, enjoying the Mid-Autumn Moon. It also expresses the sadness and emotion of breaking up soon after they reunited. The following is its original text and translation, welcome to read:
Yangguan Song·Mid-Autumn Moon
Song Dynasty: Su Shi
The real name of the Mid-Autumn Festival poem is Xiao Qin Wang, which means Yang when it is spoken. Guanqu
The dusk clouds are all gone and the cold is overflowing, and the silver man turns the jade plate silently.
This life and this night will not last long. Where can I see the bright moon next year?
Translation
As night falls, the clouds disappear, the sky and the earth are filled with cold air, the Milky Way flows silently, and the bright moon turns to the sky, as white and crystal clear as a jade plate.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival night in my life, the moonlight is mostly hidden by wind and clouds, and I rarely encounter such beautiful scenery as today. It is really rare! But where will I go to watch the Mid-Autumn Festival next year? Where is the moon?
Notes
⑴Yangguan Song: The original name is "Weicheng Song". Twenty-eight monotonous characters, four sentences and three flat rhymes. Song Qin Guanyun: The quatrains of "Weicheng Song" were included in "Little Qin Wang" in modern times and renamed "Yangguan Song". It is a double tone and a dashi tone. According to the Tang Jiaofang Ji, there is "Xiao Qin Wang Qu", which is also called "Qin Wang Xiao Po Zhen Yue", which belongs to Zubu Ji.
⑵Overflow: full. It implies that the moonlight is like water.
⑶ Yinhan: Milky Way. Yuan Hui of the Tang Dynasty's "Girlfriend in July": "Not as good as a silver-colored Han girl, who builds a bridge of magpies every year."
⑷ Jade plate: Yu Yue. Li Bai's "Gu Lang Yue Xing": "If you don't know the moon when you are young, you will call it a white jade plate."
About the author:
Su Shi (1037-1101), a writer, calligrapher and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty ,foodie. His courtesy name is Zizhan and his nickname is Dongpo Jushi. Han nationality, Sichuan native, buried in Yingchang (now Jiaxian County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). He had a bumpy official career throughout his life, but he was knowledgeable and talented. He was excellent in poetry, calligraphy and painting. His writing is unbridled, clear and fluent, and together with Ouyang Xiu, he is called Ou Su, and he is one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties"; his poetry is fresh and bold, good at using exaggeration and metaphor, and his artistic expression is unique. He is also called Su Huang together with Huang Tingjian; He started a bold and unrestrained school and had a huge influence on later generations. Together with Xin Qiji, he was called Su Xin. His calligraphy was good at running script and regular script. He could create his own ideas. His pen was rich and ups and downs, and he had an innocent taste. He was called Song Dynasty together with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Cai Xiang. The four schools have the same painting studies and literature, advocate spiritual similarity in painting, and advocate "scholar painting". He is the author of "The Complete Works of Su Dongpo" and "Su Dongpo Yuefu".