Remember the night tour of Chengtian Temple?
Song Dynasty: Su Shi
On the night of October 12, Yuan Feng, the sixth year, he undressed and wanted to sleep. He entered the house in the moonlight and set out happily. Thinking of the people who didn't play with me, I went to Jotenji Temple to find Zhang huaimin. And the people were not sleeping, and we walked together in the courtyard.
The courtyard is as empty as water, and the water is covered with bamboo and cypress. Which night has no moonlight? Which place does not have bamboo and cypress? Just lack of people like us who are so free.
Translation: On the night of October 12th, Yuan Feng's sixth year (or October 12th, 183), (I) took off my clothes to get ready for bed, and I happened to see the moonlight shining on the door, so I got up happily and went out for a walk. Thinking that there was no one to play with me, I went to Chengtian Temple to look for Zhang Huaimin. Huaimin didn't sleep either, so we walked in the courtyard together. The moonlight shines as clear and transparent as clear water in the courtyard, and the algae and shepherd's purse in the water crisscross, which turned out to be the shadows of bamboo and cypress. What night is there no moonlight? Where is there no bamboo and cypress? It's just the lack of leisure people like us.
The feelings expressed in Night Tour in Chengtian Temple are subtle and complicated, including the sadness of relegation, the feeling of life, the joy of enjoying the moon and the leisure of walking. When the author "undressed and wanted to sleep", he "entered the house by moonlight", so he "set out happily". The moonlight is rare and can't help but make people happy. However, no one enjoys the full moon with himself, so he has to go to Zhang Huaimin, who is also demoted. How much disparaging sadness and feeling of life are there! Two people stroll in the atrium, and it is leisurely. Compared with "idle people", all the meanings are included. A vivid description of the transparent and wonderful moonlight reveals the author's special state of mind, which is self-adaptive and self-dismissive, despite his subtle feelings in belittling. Expressing the author's love for moonlight, expressing the author's self-explanation, self-pride, self-mockery, longing and appreciation of natural life, and using the contempt and irony of "busy people" (court officials) as opposed to "idle people".
Su Shi (137-111) was a writer, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi Zi Zhan,no. Dongpo lay man. Han nationality, Sichuanese, was buried in Yingchang (now jia county, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). I have a bumpy career, profound knowledge, high talent, and excellent poetry, calligraphy and painting. His writing, Wang Yang, is unrestrained and fluent, and he is called Ousu with Ouyang Xiu, one of the "Eight Great Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties"; Poems are fresh and vigorous, making good use of exaggeration and metaphor, and their artistic expression is unique. They are also called Su Huang with Huang Tingjian. The school of bold and unconstrained ci has a great influence on later generations, and it is called Su Xin with Xin Qiji; Calligraphy is good at running script and regular script, and can create new ideas. It is full of ups and downs with a pen, and it is childlike. It is also called Song Sijia with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang. Painting is the same as literature. On painting, it advocates spirit likeness and "scholar painting". He is the author of The Complete Works of Su Dongpo and Dongpo Yuefu.