Lord of Furong Mountain on a Snowy Night is a five-character quatrain written by Liu Changqing, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem depicts a picture of returning home on a snowy night. The first two sentences, what the poet saw and felt in the mountain village. The last two sentences describe the poet after living in his master's house. The language of the whole poem is unpretentious, picturesque and simple and profound.
Original poem:
The setting sun is far away, the weather is cold and the house is poor.
Chai Men heard dogs barking and went home on a snowy night.
Translation:
At dusk, the farther the journey, the poorer the thatched cottage in cold weather.
Suddenly there was a dog barking outside Chai Men, and the family who stayed at home on a snowy night came back.