For example, when will there be a bright moon? From Su Dongpo in Song Dynasty.
when will there be a bright moon? I fetch the wine glass from afar. I do not know the palace in heaven, and what month and when. I would like to take the royal breeze back to the sky, and I am afraid that in the buildings of fine jade, it cannot withstand the cold of nine days. Dancing and enjoying the shadow of the moon, which is in the world.
turn to Zhuge, low-lying households, and take photos without sleep. The moon should not have any resentment against people, why is it that the people are only round when they leave? Men have sorrow and joy and they part and meet again. The moon dims or shines and it waxes or wanes. Nothing is perfect, not even in the old days. I hope people will live for a long time, and they will be beautiful for thousands of miles.
Translation:
On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Bingchen, I drank happily until the next morning, got so drunk that I wrote this poem and missed my brother Su Zhe at the same time.
when did the bright moon begin to appear? I raised my glass and asked the sky from afar. I don't know the year and month of the palace in the sky. I want to go back to the sky by the breeze, but I'm afraid the building built in Meiyu can't stand the cold that has been towering for nine days. Dancing and enjoying the clear shadow under the moon is not like being on earth.
The moon turns around the scarlet pavilion and hangs low on the carved window, looking after herself who is not sleepy. The bright moon shouldn't have any resentment towards people, right? Why is it round when people leave? People have changes in joys and sorrows, and the moon has a change from sunny to sunny. This kind of thing has been difficult to be comprehensive since ancient times. I only hope that the relatives of all people in this world can be safe and healthy, and even if they are thousands of miles apart, they can enjoy this beautiful moonlight.
Guangdong reading tips:
Su Dongpo was demoted to Huizhou, Guangdong Province in his later years, so he became attached to Lingnan. He not only created nearly 6 poems and paintings in Huizhou, but also contributed to the earliest "tap water" project in Guangzhou more than 1 years ago. Guangzhou Liurong Temple is also famous for Su Shi's inscription.
Su Shi has a beautiful sentence "Three hundred lychees a day, and you will grow up to be a Lingnan person" in Huizhou. Legend has it that he heard the local people say "three fires for a litchi" in Cantonese in Lingnan area, and he wrote this poem only after he got it wrong. The word "spit" is also common in Cantonese today, and "spit rice" means "a mouthful of rice".
There are two ways to pronounce the word "Sheng" in Cantonese. One way is to pronounce it homophonic with "Xing 3", such as victory and winning. The second kind of reading is homophonic with "rising" [sing1], such as being grateful, annoying and competent. In this song ci, the second reading method is adopted.
the word "yee" [yi2] is homophone with "chair" in Cantonese. Read [qi] in Mandarin. This needs attention.