1. Night Rain on the Western Mountain is a poem by Li Shangyin.
2. Original text
Sent to the North by Night Rain
Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty
You have not yet heard about the return date,
Bashan night rain swells the autumn pond.
Why should *** cut off the candles from the west window?
But talk about the rainy night in Bashan.
3. Introduction to Li Shangyin:
Li Shangyin (about 813-about 858), whose courtesy name was Yishan, also named Yuxi (Xi) Sheng, also known as Fan Nansheng, was originally from Hanoi, Huaizhou (now Huaizhou). Qinyang, Henan), his ancestors moved to Xingyang (today's Xingyang City, Zhengzhou, Henan). In the second year of Emperor Wenzong's reign (837), he became a Jinshi and served as secretary, provincial school secretary, and Hongnongwei.
A poet in the Tang Dynasty, in the late Tang Dynasty and even in the entire Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin was one of the few authors who deliberately pursued poetic beauty. Li Shangyin was good at poetry writing, and his parallel prose was of high literary value. Together with Du Mu, he was called "Little Li Du", and together with Wen Tingyun, he was called "Wen Li". His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems, which are sentimental, beautiful and moving, and are widely read. However, some poems are too obscure and confusing to be understood. There is a saying that "poets always love Xikun and hate that no one writes Zheng Jian."
Because Li Shangyin was involved in the political whirlpool of the "Niu-Li party struggle", he was marginalized and struggled throughout his life. According to the "Huaiqing Mansion Annals" in the fifty-fourth year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Li Shangyin was buried at the foot of Qinghua Beishan in the east of his ancestral home, Yongdian, Huaizhou (now Wangzhuang Town, Qinyangshan Mountain).