1. The ancients often looked at the moon and cherished the distance, expressing their longing for relatives and friends. Representative poems include:
The bright moon rises on the sea, and the world is at the end of the world. Lovers complain about the night, and they miss each other at night. Extinguishing the candle, the pity light is full, and the clothes are covered with dew. I can't bear the gift, but I still have a good night's sleep. ——Zhang Jiuling "Looking at the Moon and Huaiyuan"
I hope that people will live long and be thousands of miles away from the beautiful beauty. ——Su Shi "Water Melody Songtou"
2. Expressing the fleeting nature of time and nostalgia for the past that hurts the present:
Who first sees the moon by the river, and when does the moon shine on people? Life is endless from generation to generation. , the moon over the river is only similar every year. ——Zhang Ruoxu, "Moonlight Night on the Spring River"
In the old days on the east side of the Huai River, the moon came over the parapet wall late at night. ——Liu Yuxi, "Stone City"
Life is like a dream, a statue still shines in the moonlight over the river. - Su Shi's "Nian Nujiao"
3. Express one's own loneliness and desolation:
A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date. Example The cup invites the bright moon, and the shadows form three people. - Li Bai's "Drinking Alone under the Moon"
The missing moon hangs on the sparse tung trees, which breaks the early silence of the people. Who sees a lonely person coming and going alone? The misty and solitary shadow. Shocked. I get up but look back, I have regrets and no one can forgive me. I pick up all the cold branches and refuse to live on them, and the lonely sandbank is cold. - Su Shi's "Bu Shuzi"
The moon is setting, the crows are crying, the sky is full of frost, the river maples and the fishing fires are facing melancholy. Gusu At Hanshan Temple outside the city, the midnight bell rang for the passenger ship. ——Zhang Ji's "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge"
4. Expressing joyful mood and beautiful years:
A moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold. , the flowers are fragrant and the moon is cloudy. - Su Shi's "Spring Night"
Dancing low in the willow tower with the moon in the heart, singing to the wind under the peach blossom fan. - Yan Jidao's "Partridge Sky"
If this night in this life does not last long, where can I see the bright moon next year? - Su Shi's "Mid-Autumn Festival"