Poems describing winter nights
Cen Shen's "Winter Eve"
Original text:
The sweat, frost, wind blowing across the sky and the earth, the hot springs and fire wells No business.
The dragons and snakes in Zeguo cannot stretch out due to the cold, and the thin cypresses in Nanshan have disappeared.
Translation
Author: Anonymous
Strong wind mixed with frost and snow violently raged between heaven and earth, next to the hot spring fire well (the fire well may be a charcoal stove) Also lifeless.
The dragons and snakes in the rivers and seas are too frozen to stretch (or the rivers and seas are too frozen to stretch like the dragons and snakes). Even the evergreen pines and cypresses have lost their green color and look much thinner.
Appreciation
People express emotions in the cold winter, and the main purpose is to express the cold and severe cold in winter. If there is still a deeper meaning, then we can only look at the environment of the time. Cen Shen was a frontier poet in the Tang Dynasty. Maybe he still had a soldier's yearning for returning home. He was homesick in winter and felt even colder.