1. From midnight to midnight, when does the long night end? ——Ning Qi's "Song of Cow Rice"
Interpretation: We have started feeding cows at dusk and it is already evening. When will dawn come in this long night?
2. Meng'er becomes a good night, but the shadow is long and lonely. ——Liu Tingxin's "Double-tone Order of Gui Gui·Remembering Farewell"
Interpretation: The good night with sweet dreams is always extremely short, and the shadow looks particularly lonely in this long night.
3. The long night is beginning with bells and drums, and the stars are about to dawn. ——Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow"
Interpretation: Counting the sounds of bells and drums in detail, the more you count, the longer the night becomes. Look at the stars in the sky until the dawn breaks in the east.
4. Since the menstrual period has been disordered and I have had little sleep, why have I been wet for a long night? - Du Fu's "Song of Thatched Cottage Broken by the Autumn Wind"
Interpretation: I have slept less since I put down the Anshi Rebellion. The night is long, the house is leaky and the bed is wet, how can we wait until dawn?
5. If the body is weak, the spring breeze will come early, and the bushes will grow long and there will be more dew at night. ——Du Fu's "Jianjia"
Interpretation: When the body's bones are weak, even the spring breeze feels that it comes too early, and the grass in the long night has more cold dew.
6. Staying alone for long nights, dreaming of seeing Rong Hui. ——Anonymous "The Dusk of Cold Nights"
Explanation: Sleeping alone in the long night, dreaming of seeing the face of my beloved husband.
7. Tossing and turning, what a long night. ——He Qian's "Thoughts in the Room"
Interpretation: Tossing and turning, it's hard to fall asleep, why is this long night so long.
8. Taixi ends the long night, and mournfully screams into the blue clouds. ——Cao Zhi's "Seven Miscellaneous Poems"
Interpretation: In the long night, there is always a sigh, and the mournful sound reaches the blue clouds.
9. I searched hard for poems and chanted them under the lamp. I stayed up all night and was afraid of the cold quilt. ——Yu Xuanji's "Sending Wen Feiqing on a Winter Night"
Interpretation: The melancholy in my heart cannot be expressed in words, and the loneliness and coldness in the long night make it impossible to sleep.
10. I can’t sleep for a long night, lying on my pillow and tossing and turning alone. ——Qin Jia's "Three Poems for Wife"
Interpretation: It's hard to fall asleep during the long night, and I toss and turn alone in my pillow.