From: "The Resentment of the Jade Steps" by Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
The full text is as follows:
"Resentment on the Jade Steps" by Li Bai
White dew grows on the jade steps, and it invades the stockings for a long time at night. ?
But under the crystal curtain, look at the autumn moon exquisitely. ?
"Jade Level Resentment" belongs to the "Xianghege·Chu Tune" in Yuefu. Judging from the actual content of the existing lyrics, they are all music and music specifically written about palace resentment. This poem by Li Bai is no exception. Of course, we can also understand it a little more broadly and appreciate it as a poem about boudoir, not just in the palace. The poem is very short, with only four sentences and twenty words, "White dew grows on the jade steps, which invades the stockings for a long time at night. But under the crystal curtain, I look at the autumn moon exquisitely." The heroine in the poem stood on the steps at first, and unknowingly In the middle of the night, the night was already deep, so she returned to the house and put down the bead curtain, but still refused to fall asleep, and continued to be lost in thought as she persistently looked at the bright moon outside the curtain. The scene provided by the poem is very limited, but it is moved from the steps in the courtyard to the boudoir inside the crystal curtain. The celestial phenomena are white dew and the autumn moon, which are used to indicate the season and time of the events in the poem, which is an autumn day. At night, from beginning to end, the protagonist's movements are extremely limited. He first stands on the steps and waits, and then returns to the house to look at the moon.