Love is an eternal topic for human beings. Love is the strong attachment, closeness, yearning, selfless, single-minded and all-consuming emotion between people. It's the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the flowers are blooming and the moon is full, I've prepared a set of the most beautiful ancient poems and love words for you.
May I be like a star, like the moon, and the light will shine brightly every night.
——Fan Chengda
Sitting alone and leaning high in the Mingyue Tower, the wine filled my heart with sadness, turning into tears of lovesickness.
——Fan Zhongyan
There is a dream behind the curtain of the moon at night, and the tenderness of the spring breeze is ten miles away.
——Qin Guan
The bright moon does not know the pain of separation and hatred, and its slanting light penetrates Zhuhu at dawn.
——Yan Shu
Just like the moon, it will always be bright and clear, and the ice and snow will keep you warm.
——Nalan Xingde
I only hope that your heart will be like mine, and you will live up to your love.
——Li Zhiyi of the Song Dynasty
When they are married as husband and wife, there is no doubt about their love.
——Su Wu
Only if you don’t miss lovesickness in your life, you will be lovesick, and it will be harmful to lovesickness.
——Xu Zaisi
Entering the door of my lovesickness, I know that my lovesickness is painful. Long lovesickness brings long memories, but short lovesickness brings endless memories.
——Li Bai
It seems that these stars are not from last night, for whom the wind and dew set the middle night.
——Huang Jingren
Appreciation of Classic Mid-Autumn Festival Poems
1. The most powerful Mid-Autumn Festival poem "Looking at the Moon and Huaiyuan" (Zhang Jiuling of Tang Dynasty)
There is a bright moon on the sea, the end of the world is at this moment.
Lovers complain about the distant night, but they start to miss each other at night.
When the candle is extinguished, it is filled with pity and light, and when I put on my clothes, I feel the dew.
I can’t bear to give away gifts, but I still have a good night’s sleep.
Comments: Zhang Jiuling was a famous prime minister in the Tang Dynasty. He was rejected by treacherous ministers and demoted to Jingzhou. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, he missed the distant place and wrote this poem. The artistic conception of the poem is powerful and broad, the bones are strong, but the emotions are sincere. Especially the first two sentences have become famous lines throughout the ages.
2. The most lonely Mid-Autumn Festival poem "Looking at the Moon on the Fifteenth Night" (Wang Jian of Tang Dynasty)
Crows roost on the white trees in the courtyard, and the cold dew wets the sweet-scented osmanthus silently.
Tonight, when the moon is bright and everyone looks around, I don’t know who is missing my autumn thoughts.
Comments: This poem first writes about the moonlight of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and then writes about looking at the moon and cherishing people, showing a picture of a lonely, deserted, and quiet Mid-Autumn night. It starts with descriptions of scenery and expresses emotions, with rich imagination and endless charm.
3. The Mid-Autumn Festival poem with the most frontier feel, "Wu Song Autumn Song at Midnight" (Li Bai, Tang Dynasty)
Chang'an is covered by a moon, and thousands of households are pounding their clothes.
The autumn wind never blows away, but there is always love.
On what day when the barbarians are defeated, a good man will stop his expedition.
Comments: "Midnight Wu Songs" includes four songs: Spring Songs, Summer Songs, Autumn Songs and Winter Songs. This autumn song is about a wife who is on an expedition and misses her husband ("beloved man") on an expedition to the frontier on an autumn night. Although it does not directly describe love, every word is permeated with sincere affection.
4. The most affectionate Mid-Autumn Festival poem "Moon Night" (Du Fu, Tang Dynasty)
Tonight in Yanzhou, I can only watch the moon in my boudoir.
I pity my children from afar, but I still remember Chang'an.
The fragrant mist makes the servant girl wet, and the clear jade arm is cold.
Whenever I lean on the virtual guise, my tears will dry under the double light.
Comments: Obviously I am in Chang'an, looking at the moon and thinking of my relatives in Yanzhou (today's Fuxian County, Shaanxi Province). But the poem thinks from the opposite perspective, only writing about the wife "looking alone" at the moon in Yanzhou and "reminiscing about Chang'an". This way of imagining each other's ideas expresses the sincere feelings of a family and is often used as a reference by future generations.
5. The coldest Mid-Autumn Festival poem "Looking at the Moon in the Pavilion on the Night of August 15th" (Bai Juyi, Tang Dynasty)
On the night of August 15th of that year, I was beside the apricot garden by the Qujiang Pool.
On the night of August 15th this year, in front of the Shatou Water Museum in Penpu.
Looking to the northwest, where is my hometown? To the southeast, I can see how full the moon is.
Yesterday the wind blew and no one was there, but tonight the light is as clear as in previous years.
Comments: The moon is still the same as before, but the place is not the same place as before. Naturally, the people around me are no longer the same people as before. He was demoted to Penpu (today's Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province), where things changed, his hometown disappeared, and he was left alone. The poem is extremely cold and sorrowful.
6. The most sentimental Mid-Autumn poem "Mid-Autumn Moon" (Su Shi of the Song Dynasty)
The dusk clouds have gathered up and overflowed with cold, and the silver man turned the jade plate silently.
This life and this night will not last long. Where can I see the bright moon next year?
Comments: The author Su Shi and his brother Su Che reunited after a long separation and enjoyed the Mid-Autumn Festival moon. Such a pleasant thing, but it reminded the author of the sadness and emotion of breaking up soon after getting together. The poetry has a lofty realm, the language is clear, and the meaning is profound.
7. The most famous Mid-Autumn Festival poem "Shui Diao Ge Tou" (Su Shi, Song Dynasty)
When will the bright moon appear? Ask the sky for wine. I don’t know what year it is today in the palace in the sky.
I want to ride the wind back home, but I'm afraid it's too cold in the high places. Dancing clear shadow, like in the world?
Turning to the Zhu Pavilion, the Qihu is low, and the light is sleepless. There shouldn't be any hatred, so what's the point of saying goodbye? People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, and the moon waxes and wanes. This has never been the case in ancient times. I hope that people will live long and travel thousands of miles to meet Chanjuan.
Comments: This is one of Su Shi's masterpieces, and it is also recognized as the swan song among works about the Mid-Autumn Festival since ancient times. It has a novel idea and a unique approach. Myth and reality, emotion and broad-mindedness are intertwined in layers. It is full of romanticism, philosophy and human feelings. Throughout the whole article, there are good sentences, which well reflect the clear and broad-minded style of Su Ci.
8. The most scientifically imaginative Mid-Autumn Festival poem "Magnolia Slowly" (Song Xin Qiji)
Poor moon, where is it going? Is it a different world, only seen over there, with light and shadow to the east? It's the sky, the sky is full of sweat, but the wind is blowing brightly to send you the Mid-Autumn Festival? Who can tie the flying mirror without roots? If Chang'e doesn't marry, who will stay?
It is said that there is no reason to go through the bottom of the sea, and the trance makes people sad. Afraid of thousands of miles of whales, the Jade Palace and the Qiong Tower will be destroyed vertically and horizontally. A toad is so worthy of bathing in water. How can a jade rabbit explain the ups and downs? If everything is fine, how come it gradually becomes like a hook?
Comments: A series of questions make this poem almost the most scientific poem in ancient China. Eight hundred years ago, Xin Qiji actually came into contact with the scientific phenomenon of the moon revolving around the earth in his poems. Wang Guowei praised: "To understand directly the principle of the moon orbiting the earth can be called spiritual enlightenment."
9. The most magnificent Mid-Autumn Festival poem "Nian Nujiao Passes Through the Dongting" (Song Dynasty Zhang Xiaoxiang)
The green grass in Dongting, near the Mid-Autumn Festival, has no wind at all. There are thirty thousand hectares of Yujian and Qiongtian fields, one leaf of which is on my boat. The moon is shining brightly, and the bright river is shining brightly, making it clear both inside and outside. It's hard to tell you the beauty of this leisurely understanding.
Ying Nian Ridge has been there for many years, and the lonely light shines on it, and the liver and gallbladder are all covered with ice and snow. The short hair is fluttery, the sleeves are cold, and the sky is wide and steady. Stroll the Xijiang River, pour the Beidou carefully, and treat everything as a guest. The boat is whistling alone, I don’t know what night it is.
Comments: The sky is blue, the water is calm, the moon shines on the lake, and the world is clear. Boating on the lake, using the water of the Yangtze River as wine, using the Big Dipper as a wine glass, and inviting all the stars in the sky to come as guests, drink carefully with me. In this situation, there is no heaven, earth, thing or me, I don’t know what day or night it will be. This kind of magnificence, this kind of heroic sentiment can never be repeated throughout the Song Dynasty.
10. The saddest Mid-Autumn Festival poem "Qihuai" (Qing Dynasty Huang Jingren)
Several times I sat under the flowers and played the flute, and the red wall with silver flowers came into view into the distance.
It seems that these stars are not last night, for whom the wind and dew set the midnight sun.
The lingering thoughts are exhausted and the remaining cocoons are drawn, and the heartache is peeled off.
It was March or May of 1935, but the glass of wine still lingered.
Comments: When the poet was young, he was in love with his cousin, but it started with warmth and ended in silence. In the eyes of the poet, although the red wall where the beautiful woman is is close at hand, it is as far away and out of reach as the silver man in the sky.
How to not make people extremely sad?