From "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge", the author is Zhang Ji of the Tang Dynasty.
Source: "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge" - Tang Dynasty: Zhang Ji
The moon is setting, crows are crying, and the sky is full of frost. Jiang Feng, fishing fire, and melancholy sleep.
At Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the bell rang at midnight to reach the passenger ship.
The moon has set, the crows are crows and the sky is filled with cold air. The maple trees on the riverside and the fishing fires on the boats make it difficult for me to sleep alone in sorrow. The lonely and quiet Hanshan Ancient Temple outside Gusu City, the bells ringing in the middle of the night reached the passenger ship I was on.
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1. The creative background of "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge"
The Anshi Rebellion broke out in January of the fourteenth year of Tianbao. Because the political situation in Jiangnan was relatively stable at that time, many scribes fled to the present-day Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas to escape the chaos, including Zhang Ji. One autumn night, the poet was boating on Maple Bridge outside Suzhou. The beautiful scenery of the autumn night in the Jiangnan water town attracted this guest with travel worries, and he wrote this little poem with a clear and far-reaching artistic conception.
2. Introduction to the author of "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge"
Zhang Ji is well-read, easy to talk about, and knows how to govern the body. Befriended Huangfu Ran and became more in love with his younger brother Kun. In the twelfth year of Tianbao (AD 753), he became a Jinshi. Ran Quan failed in the election and returned home. In October of the first year of Baoying's reign (AD 762), the first year of Emperor Li Yu's reign in the Tang Dynasty, the government troops recaptured the two capitals. Zhang Ji was appointed as Yuan Wai Lang to serve as a dispatcher in Zhengxi Prefecture. From then on, he gave up his writing and joined the army. He later became a school inspector and was promoted to a school inspector. , and finally the judge of salt and iron.
Divide the wealth into Hongzhou. At the end of the Dali period, Zhang Ji took office as the judge of salt and iron and died of illness in just over a year. He was honest and upright. Later, his wife also died there. A collection of Zhang Jiyou's poems, "Collection of Poems of Zhang Cibu", was passed down to later generations and was written without any polish. Among them, "Mooring at Night on Maple Bridge" is the most famous.