It means that the bright moonlight shines on my empty bed, and the milky way flows westward, and the sleepless night is long.
These two sentences are from the first one in Two Songs of Yan by Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of Wei.
Original text:
The autumn wind is bleak, the weather is cool, the grass and trees are shaken and exposed to frost, and the flock of swallows leave for the south.
I miss you, and you are heartbroken, and you are homesick for your hometown. Why do you send it to stay for a long time?
My concubine keeps her room alone, and she is afraid to forget her worries and worries, so she doesn't feel her clothes stained with tears.
If you play the piano and sing the strings, you can't sing short songs for a long time.
The bright moon shines on my bed, and the stars and the Hans flow west to night is still young.
Petunia and Weaver Girl look at each other from a distance, so why not limit the river beam?
Translation:
The autumn wind is bleak, the weather is cold, the vegetation is withered, and the dew is frosty. Swallows leave, swans fly south. I miss my lover who travels far away, and my heart is deeply grieved. Think about it and miss your hometown. Why are you, stay for a long time?
My concubine is lonely and empty in her boudoir. I miss the gentleman when I am sad. I can't forget it. Unconsciously, tears fell and wet my clothes. I took the guqin and fiddled with the strings, but I was sad. The short song sings softly, as if it were still broken.
the bright moonlight shines on my empty bed, and the milky way flows westward, and the sleepless nights are long. Cowherd and Weaver Girl, look at each other from a distance. What's your sin? It's blocked by Tianhe.
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This poem tells a woman's thoughts about her husband. The pen is euphemistic, the language is beautiful, and the feelings are lingering. The outstanding feature of this poem is the ingenious blend of scenery writing and lyric.
"The autumn wind is bleak, the weather is cool, the plants and trees are shaken and exposed to frost, and the geese leave and go to the south." The first three sentences write a chilling scene in late autumn, preparing for the heroine's appearance. The image here is visual, auditory and sensual, which gives people a feeling of emptiness, loneliness and decline. This scene is consistent with the inner feelings of the heroine who is about to appear.
"I miss you and your guests, and you are heartbroken, and you are homesick for your hometown. Why do you send them to stay for a long time?" The heroine, with a sad face, looked at the distance with deep affection and talked to herself. She said, You have been away from home for so long, and I miss you so much. I can also imagine your sad and frustrated yearning for your hometown every day, but what on earth made you stay out for so long and not come back?
Mao (qiānqiān): frustrated and uneven. "I miss my hometown" is the scene that the heroine is imagining her husband missing his hometown outside. This kind of writing is ingenious, concrete and meticulous. When a person misses another person, his ideological activities always have specific contents, or he remembers the past time together, or looks forward to the joy of meeting in the future, or cares about the other person's life outside.
"Why did you send it from stay for a long time?" There are expectations, doubts, and infinite suspense.
"My concubine keeps her empty room, but she is afraid to forget when she is worried about you, and she doesn't feel her clothes in tears." These three sentences describe the heroine's life at home: she lives alone in the empty room, takes Sifu as her business all day, and often tears her clothes.
This aspect shows her loneliness in life and loneliness and boredom in spirit. On the other hand, it shows the heroine's infinite loyalty and love for her husband. Although her life is so bleak and lonely, she doesn't want anything except to miss her husband and look forward to his early return.
"You can't sing a short song for a long time if you help the piano to sing strings and make a clear business." On this autumn night, the heroine is sad. She took heptachord and wanted to play a Qing Shang song to express her inexpressible feelings, but all her words were short and plaintive, and she could never sing a soft and beautiful Long song. The heroine is lonely and sad to the extreme. Even if she wants to play a different tune, how can she play it?
"The bright moon shines on my bed, and the stars are flowing west to night is still young. Cowherd and Weaver Girl look at each other from a distance, so why are you alone in limiting the river beam? " The heroine misses people far away sadly. Sometimes she sighs in the breeze, sometimes she croons and wanders around, and I don't know how long it will take. The moonlight shone on her empty bed through the curtain. She looked up at the blue sky and saw that the Milky Way had turned west. Only then did she know that the night was already deep.
"night is still young" has two meanings here. One is about when the heroine will get through this long and bleak night. The other layer is symbolic, which means that wars and corvees are endless, and the heroine's life suffering, like this long night, is still growing, and there is no end in sight.
Facing the heavy night sky, looking up at the bitter Milky Way and savoring the painful life, her eyes suddenly fell on the bright stars on both sides of the Milky Way: Ah! Cowherd and Weaver Girl, my poor partner in bad karma, what sin do you have that people cut you off on both sides of the galaxy like this?
The two sentences that the heroine said to Petunia and Weaver Girl are as angry as resentment and as confused as delusion. They are not only for the two stars in the sky, but also for herself, and at the same time for millions of men and women who are forced to separate and cannot reunite with each other.
This voice is a strong appeal, a sad accusation and an angry protest. It seems to have resounded through the sky at that time, and its resounding echo can be heard every month and every moment in the feudal society for nearly two thousand years. This kind of pun, endless aftertaste, low and loud ending, is very wonderful.