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In a gray autumn grass beaten by frost, insects are whispering, and pedestrians around the mountain village are extinct. I came to the front door alone and looked at the fields. I saw the bright moon shining on the endless buckwheat field. The buckwheat flowers on the ground are like a dazzling snowflake.
Creative background editing
In the ninth year of Yuanhe (8 14), Bai Juyi wrote this poem in Wei Village with loneliness because of his mother's death.
Literary appreciation
"Frost grass and green worms are cut down, and people in the south of the village are absolutely unique." Frost grass green, pointing out the thick autumn color; Cutting insects, rendering the sadness of autumn night. Pedestrians are extinct and everything is silent. The two poems clearly outline the characteristics of village night: the night is deep, the autumn color is strong, and the grass color is boundless under the influence of autumn frost. The air was silent and the pedestrians were gone. Only unknown autumn insects are singing in a low voice.
The sentence "Look at Noda before going out" is not only a transition in the poem, but also changes the object of description from the village to the field. It is also a turning point of the two couplets, which closes the description of the bleak atmosphere of the village night and opens up another refreshing picture for readers. The bright moonlight shines on the endless buckwheat field, which looks bright and dazzling from a distance, like a crystal white snow.
"The bright moon is in the sky, and buckwheat flowers are like snow", which is a very moving scenery. The picturesque beauty of nature infected the poet, which made him forget his loneliness for a while and could not help but exclaim. This magnificent scene is in sharp contrast with the description in the first two sentences. The poet skillfully uses the transformation of natural scenery to write the changes of characters' feelings, which is flexible and free without trace. And simple and natural, it is kind and touching to read and memorable.
Through the different descriptions of the scenery before and after, the poet's emotional changes from loneliness to excitement and complacency are expressed. The poet described the night scene of the countryside in a simple way, and the fresh and quiet scenery contained profound poetry. The poem describes the rural night, bleak and desolate, but also spectacular, which constitutes the rural night scene in contrast.
Author profile editor
Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi (AD 772-846) was born in Xiatuo, Huazhou (now Weinan, Shaanxi) in his later years. In 800 years (the 16th year of Zhenyuan), he was a scholar, and successively served as Zuo Shiyi, Doctor Zanshan in the East Palace, Sima in Jiangzhou, Secretariat of History in Hangzhou and Suzhou, and Taifu. Bai Juyi is a great realistic poet. His poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language. His "Qin Zhongyin and New Yuefu" dares to face the abuses of those in power, reflects people's sufferings and profoundly exposes social contradictions. He was also the main advocate of the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi's narrative poems such as Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa Journey are exquisite, vivid and touching, with unique artistic style and extremely wide influence. In the theory of poetry creation, he put forward the views that "articles should be written in time" and "poems should be written for things". There are more than 3,000 existing poems, including Bai Changqing Collection.