jì?chéng?tiān?sì?yè yóu
"Remember the Night Tour of Chengtian Temple?"
sòng?sū shì
Song Dynasty. Su Shi
yuán fēng liù nián shí yuè shí èr rì yè, jiě yī yù shuì, yuè sè rù hù, xīn rán qǐ háng. niàn wú yǔ wéi lè zhě ，suí zhì chéng tiān sì xún zhāng huái mín . huái mín yì wèi qǐn, xiāng yǔ bù yú zhōng tíng.
On the night of October 12th, the sixth year of Yuanfeng, I took off my clothes and was about to fall asleep. When the moonlight came into my house, I happily set off. Thinking of nothing and being happy, I went to Chengtian Temple to look for Zhang Huaimin. Huai Min also stayed up and walked with each other in the atrium.
tíng xià rú jī shuǐ kōng míng, shuǐ zhōng zǎo xìng jiāo héng, gài zhú bǎi yǐng yě. hé yè wú yuè? hé chù wú zhú bǎi? dàn shǎo xián rén rú wú liǎng rén zhě ěr.
The sky under the courtyard looks like accumulated water. The water is crisscrossed with algae and covered with bamboo and cypress shadows. What night is there without a moon? Where are there no bamboos or cypresses? But there are few idle people like the two of us.
Translation:
On the night of October 12th, the sixth year of Yuanfeng (or the night of October 12th, 1083 AD, it does not need to be translated), (I) took off my clothes and got ready to sleep. , happened to see the moonlight shining on the door, (so I) happily got up and went out for a walk. It occurred to me that I had no one with whom to play, so I went to Chengtian Temple to look for Zhang Huaimin. Huai Min didn't sleep either, so we walked in the courtyard together. The moonlight shone on the courtyard, clear and transparent like water filled with water - through which extended a line of water-lilies and water-lilies, which turned out to be the shadow of bamboo and cypress. Which night is without moonlight? (Again) Which place doesn’t have bamboo and cypress trees? It’s just that there is a lack of people with leisure time like the two of us.
Writing background:
This article was written in the sixth year of Yuanfeng (1083), the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty. At that time, the author had been demoted to Huangzhou for four years. In July of the second year of Yuanfeng, there was the famous "Wutai Poetry Case" in history. The censor Li Ding and others excerpted Su Shi's poems about the new law and said that he had slandered him with his poems. In August, he was arrested and imprisoned. After a long period of interrogation and torture, he was almost killed. In December, the author was released from prison and was demoted to Huangzhou as the deputy envoy of Tuanlian, but he was not allowed to "sign official documents", which meant that he was an idle official with duties but no power. Under such circumstances, the author wrote this short article, which gave a wonderful description of the scenery on a moonlit night and truly recorded a fragment of his life at that time. It also reflects his deep friendship with Zhang Huaimin and his infinite emotion at having so few close friends.
Thoughts and emotions:
The emotions expressed in "Night Tour of Chengtian Temple" are subtle and complex, including the sadness of being relegated, the emotion of life, the joy of admiring the moon, and the leisurely stroll. are included. When the author was "undressing and about to sleep", "the moonlight entered the house", so he "happily set off". The moonlight was rare, which made people happy. But there was no one to admire the moon with my wife, so I had to look for Zhang Huaimin, who was also demoted. There was so much desolation and sadness in it! The two of them walked in the atrium, leisurely. Compared with "idle people", all meanings are contained in it. The vivid and vivid description of the clear and beautiful moonlight reveals the author's special state of mind, although he was deeply moved by the humiliation, but he was adaptable to the situation and relieved himself. It expresses the author's love for the moonlight, expresses the author's self-understanding, self-respect, self-mockery, yearning for and appreciation of natural life, and the disdain and irony of "busy people" (court officials and villains) as opposed to "idle people".