Silent Night Thoughts
Li Bai
The moonlight shines brightly in front of the bed, which is suspected to be frost on the ground.
Look up at the bright moon and lower your head to think about your hometown.
"Thoughts on a Quiet Night" is an ancient five-character poem written by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the poet's feelings when he looked up at the moon in the house on an autumn night. The poem uses metaphors, foils and other techniques to express the homesickness of being a guest. The language is fresh and simple and the charm is implicit. It has always been widely recited.
The bright moonlight shines on the window paper in front of the bed, as if there is a layer of frost on the ground.
I couldn't help but raise my head and look at the bright moon in the sky outside the window. I couldn't help but lower my head and think about my hometown far away.
Li Bai's poem "Silent Night Thoughts" was written around the fifteenth day of the ninth lunar month in 726 AD (the fourteenth year of the Kaiyuan reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty). Li Bai was 26 years old at the time, and he was writing in a hotel in Yangzhou at that time. His poem "Traveling on an Autumn Evening" should be regarded as a sequel to "Thoughts on a Quiet Night", and was written at the same time and in the same place. Li Bai looked up at the bright moon in the sky on a starry night. Feeling homesick, he wrote this famous poem "Thoughts on a Quiet Night" that has been passed down through the ages and is well-known at home and abroad.