Half a pot of spring water and a cigarette.
Embrace the moon and sleep in your arms.
Yi Song Huang Chunbo's quatrains
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There is a man who lives by the river with fuzzy springs. He is so ordinary that few people care about his existence. At night, he sleeps with the moon in his arms and stars on his head, but his happiness is so different.
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Half a pot of spring water, light smoke, holding the moon pillow to sleep. Don't ask me when talking to people. The hero looks back and is immortal.
Wild birds see me drunk, and the stream allows me to sleep.
-A piece of Ouyang Xiu's Drunk Pavilion in Chuzhou
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Birds in the country saw me drunk, and the white clouds on the stream kept me sleeping here.
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Wild birds see me drunk, and the stream allows me to sleep. Shanhua can laugh, but she doesn't understand me. Only the rock wind came, and I woke up as soon as it blew.
Sitting on a sleeping boat, the clouds are deep and small.
One hundred and one Chen Yuanfu's "Jiang Tian Mu Xue"
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Free and easy to lie on the boat, let the boat drift freely, only to see a small fishing boat vaguely on the thick cloud-covered river.
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The sky is full of jade flowers and white Hao Hao in Tingzhou. The wild goose shadow has disappeared, and a thousand cliffs are like dawn. The fisherman is cold and wants to return, but he doesn't remember Baling Road. Sitting on a sleeping boat, the clouds are deep and small.
Sleep in autumn is nowhere to be found.
-Korean "beginning of autumn"
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I seem to hear the sound of autumn wind in my sleep, but I can't find anything when I wake up, only the leaves on the steps are bathed in moonlight.
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The crow of the milk crow scattered the jade screen, and one pillow was cold and the other was cold.
There is nowhere to find the autumn sleep, and the phoenix tree is full moon.
Spend a shoulder. Moon shoulder. A wick of incense curled up smoke. People sleep with flowers and the moon.
-Zhao Qing, I appreciate "the mountain is green"
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The moonlight floated down, and the flowers fell on me like moonlight. Burning incense is full of incense, and cigarettes are thin and graceful. People fall asleep with flowers and the moon.
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Spend a shoulder. Moon shoulder. A wick of incense curled up smoke. People sleep with flowers and the moon. Twilight company. Sun Shan company. As charming as last year. Come back to the dressing room.
The bed is cold and full of phoenix trees, and the moon is bright where phoenix trees are missing.
A piece of Zhu's Autumn Night
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Outside the window, the moon shadow sewn by the buttonwood was scattered on the cold bed, but the moon still looked so bright through the buttonwood.
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The night is sleepless, the autumn wind is clear, and the candle flowers are frequently cut to night. The bed is cold and full of phoenix trees, and the moon is bright where phoenix trees are missing.
Come back from a hearty meal, don't take off your hemp fiber and lie in the moonlight after dusk.
1 1 Don Lv Dongbin's The Shepherd Boy
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The shepherd boy came back and had a good meal. It's already after dusk. He didn't even take off his hemp fiber, so he lay on the grass and watched the full moon in the sky.
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The grass shop is six or seven miles away from the field, and the flute makes the night wind three or four times. Come back from a full meal at dusk and lie in the moonlight without taking off your hemp fiber.
After fishing, there is no boat, and the moon sets in Jiangcun.
-Tang Sikongshu, "Jiangcun is a thing"
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When the fisherman came back from fishing at night, it was already the waning moon, but he just slept peacefully, too lazy to tie the rope and let it drift with the wind.
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Fishing came back, but I was too lazy to tie the rope and let the fishing boat drift in the wind; At this time, the waning moon is already in the west, but I am sleeping soundly. Even if the wind blows at night and the boat is blown away by the wind, it just stops on the shallow shore of the reed catkin beach.