The author of this poem is Du Lei, a native of Song Dynasty. The most impressive thing in the Song Dynasty is the graceful and restrained Song Ci. There are really few poems and songs about the Song Dynasty, and the more famous ones are hard to find by memory. Therefore, Du Lei's amazing poem One Thousand Years is called Subversion. This poem is a subversion, and so is Du Lei. Apart from this famous poem, people know little about Du Lei's other poems, or some of them are, but they are not outstanding, so they are remembered.
Who said that the unpopular is not a boutique, the best is the unpopular. Lei's Cold Night, with several figures and plain words, skillfully describes the changes of people's mood. Without affectation, such poems are the best, but those carefully crafted poems have lost their original simplicity. Words without self-cultivation really express the simplest and most touching feelings in the world. Reading this poem, it seems that the poet and his friends are talking warmly or quietly under the lamp, and the burning fire in the furnace is particularly bright and warm on this night.
Although it has been a long time, every time I recite this poem, I always sincerely sigh in my heart that the years were quiet at that time. Presumably, when the poet wrote this poem, he got together with friends on a cold night. When no one was around in the middle of the night, I suddenly remembered all kinds of things last night and wrote this poem casually. At that time, his mood must be very happy, the kind of clear and satisfied happiness. Only in this way can this little poem be so clean and refined, just like what you and I are talking about.