The author of the poem "Spring sleep without realizing the dawn" is Meng Haoran.
1. Original text
I sleep in spring without realizing the dawn, and hear the singing of birds everywhere.
The sound of wind and rain at night makes one know how many flowers have fallen.
2. Translation
I slept soundly on a spring night and didn’t know when it would be dawn. When I woke up, I only heard the chirping of birds everywhere.
Remembering the sound of wind and rain last night, I wonder how many flowers were knocked down?
3. Introduction to the author
Meng Haoran, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. His real name is Hao, and his courtesy name is Haoran. He was born in Xiangyang, Xiangzhou, and was known as Meng Xiangyang in the world. Because he had never been an official, he was also called a Mengshan man. In his early years, he had ambitions to serve the world. After being embattled and disappointed in his official career, he was still able to respect himself and did not flatter the world, so he lived his whole life as a hermit. He once lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain and gave birth to six sons. Shi and Wang Wei are both called "Wang Meng". His poems are light and good at describing scenery. They mostly reflect the landscape, pastoral, seclusion, travel and other content. Most of them are five-character short stories, and he has unique attainments in art. There are three volumes of "Collected Works of Meng Haoran" and two volumes of compiled poems.
Appreciation of the work "Spring Dawn":
This little poem "Spring Dawn" seems to be ordinary at first reading, but after repeated reading, I feel that there is a world of difference in the poem. Its artistic charm does not lie in the gorgeous rhetoric or the unique artistic techniques, but in its charm. The style of the whole poem is as simple and natural as flowing clouds and flowing water, yet it is far-reaching, profound and uniquely wonderful. For thousands of years, people have recited and discussed it, as if this short four-line poem contains endless artistic treasures.