The moonlight, as clear as water, pours on the rippling river. The river flows, the moonlight sparkles and flickers, and you feel like the deep sky is surging beneath your feet.
Jiang Tower Feels Old by Zhao Gu
Going up to the Jiang Tower alone, I feel lost in my thoughts, the moonlight is like water and the water is like the sky.
Wherever the people come to look at the moon, the scenery is vaguely like last year.
"Jiang Tower Feeling Old" is a work by Zhao Gu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. This is a poem about remembering old friends and memories. The poet climbed up to the small building by the river alone on a cool and quiet night. Looking around, he saw the clear moonlight pouring on the ripples of the river. The night view of the Jianglou is beautiful and elegant; then, the poet uttered deep sighs, subtly hinting at the different feelings of the past and present. The language of the whole poem is elegant, using scenery to express feelings, and the emotions are sincere. The poet writes freely and mixes reality and fiction when writing about old things, giving the whole poem an ethereal and far-reaching artistic beauty, giving people infinite reverie and meaningful charm.