"Climbing the Tower to Look at the Moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival" is an ancient poem by Mi Fu of the Song Dynasty with pinyin added as follows:
1. Original text and pinyin
Climbing the Tower to Look at the Moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival
zhōng qiū dēng lóu wàng yuè
Song · Mifu
sòng ·mǐ fèi
The Huaihai Sea is as full as silver, and thousands of rainbow lights nurture the treasures of clams.
mù qióng huái hǎi mǎn rú yín, wàn dào hóng guāng yù bàng zhēn.
If there is no moon door in the sky, the osmanthus branches will support the westward wheel.
tiān shàng ruò wú xiū yuè hù, guì zhī chēng sǔn xiàng xī lún.
2. Translation
As far as the eye can see, the sea water of Huaihai is shining with white light like silver. Under the colorful light, clams are pregnant with pearls.
If no one repairs the moon in the sky, the osmanthus branches will probably burst the moon.
3. Introduction to the author
Mi Fu (1051-1107) was a calligrapher, painter and theorist of calligraphy and painting in the Northern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home is Taiyuan and he moved to Xiangyang. He has a great talent, a dashing character, and is obsessed with cleanliness. The clothes were imitated by the people of the Tang Dynasty, and they stored more rare stones.
The world name is Midian. Calligraphy and painting are in a class of their own. He can paint dead trees, bamboos and rocks, always coming up with new ideas, and he can also paint landscapes, creating an ink play of clouds and mountains, hidden by smoke and clouds, looking plain and innocent. One of the four families of Song Dynasty.
Appreciation of "Climbing a Tower to Look at the Moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival":
1. The first two sentences
The first sentence, "The Huaihai Sea is full of silver" refers to the poet climbing up a tall building. , looking around, the vast Huaihai Sea is filled with silver light everywhere.
The poet uses words such as "full as silver" to vividly depict a beautiful picture of the moonlight shining on the sea. "Poor" means that the author is in a very high place upstairs, with a very broad view and a magnanimous mood.
The second sentence quotes a folk legend. It is said that the growth of pearls is related to the roundness and lack of the moon. When the moon is round, clams will give birth to pearls. This sentence says that on a full moon night, the moonlight is like the rays of thousands of rainbows, allowing the clam shells to breed countless pearls. Those pearls must be very beautiful.
Second and last two sentences
The author of the third sentence also quoted a folk legend. It is said that the moon in the sky is made of seven kinds of treasures, and there are 82,000 households in the world who want it. Responsible for repairing and maintaining it.
If there are no hard-working people in the world to repair the moon, the osmanthus branches on the moon will continue to grow, and sooner or later the round moon will burst! "Xiuyuehu" refers to those who diligently repair the osmanthus trees on the moon, and "Xilun" refers to a full moon that slowly falls to the west.
The author uses legends to express his praise for the bright moon, which adds a mythical color to the Mid-Autumn Festival and the round moon, and also makes the Mid-Autumn Moon more charming.