It disappears and appears like a light cloud enveloping the moon, floating and erratic like the returning wind and swirling snow.
It comes from Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu" during the Three Kingdoms period.
Original text
Its shape is as graceful as a frightened giant and graceful as a wandering dragon. The autumn chrysanthemums are shining brightly, and the spring pines are blooming brightly. It seems like the moon is covered by light clouds, and the fluttering snow is like the flowing wind. Looking at it from a distance, it is as bright as the sun rising as the morning glow; looking at it from a distance, it is as bright as a flower rising from Lubo.
Translation
Her figure is as graceful as a flying geese, and as graceful as a swimming dragon. Her face is as radiant as a chrysanthemum in the autumn sun, and her body is as lush as a green pine in the spring breeze. She disappears and appears like light clouds enveloping the moon, floating and erratic like the returning wind and swirling snow. Looking from a distance, it is as bright and clear as the rising sun rising in the morning glow; looking from a close distance, it is as bright and bright as a new lotus blooming among the green waves.
Extended information:
Creative background
After Cao Zhi entered Luoyang, the capital of the imperial court, in the third year of Huangchu (222), Emperor Wen of Wei Dynasty, he was on his way back to Juancheng, his fiefdom. When passing through Luoshui, I wrote this poem "in response to Song Yu's feelings towards the king and goddess of Chu". At that time, not long after Cao Pi ascended the throne, he killed Cao Zhi's close friends Ding Yi and Ding Zhi. Cao Zhi was demoted to Marquis of Anxiang, later changed to Marquis of Juancheng, and then made King of Juancheng. These were one after another heavy blows to Cao Zhi, and he felt extremely depressed and depressed.
About the author
Cao Zhi (192-232), courtesy name Zijian, was a native of Wei Qiao (now Bozhou, Anhui) during the Three Kingdoms period. Cao Caozi. He was talented and quick-thinking, and was deeply loved by Cao Cao. He was almost made a prince, but he eventually fell out of favor because he "acted willfully, did not encourage himself, and drank alcohol without restraint." He has the highest literary achievement in Jian'an and is the first literati to write five-character poems vigorously. There are more than 90 existing poems.
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