"The Great Night Work" is a seven-character quatrain written by Gao Shi in the Tang Dynasty. Translation:
? I was lying alone in the hotel, with the cold light shining on me, and it was difficult to fall asleep for a long time. What is it that makes me, a tourist, feel desolate and sad? People in my hometown must be missing me tonight, who is thousands of miles away; my hair on the temples has turned gray, and tomorrow will be a new year.
Original text:
A masterpiece at night
The hotel is sleepless under the cold light, and the guest's heart becomes desolate.
My hometown is far away tonight, and I am worried about another new year on my temples.
Notes:
①New Year’s Eve: New Year’s Eve.
②Kexin: one’s own thoughts. Turn: become. Sad: desolate and sad.
③Frost temples: white temples. Ming Dynasty (zhāo): tomorrow.
Gao Shi (about 704-about 765), courtesy name Dafu and Zhongwu, Han nationality, was born in Bohai County (now Jingxian County, Hebei Province) in the Tang Dynasty. He later moved to Songcheng, Songzhou (now Shangqiu, Henan Province). Suiyang). A famous frontier poet in the Tang Dynasty, he once served as the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, the Changshi of Sanqi, and the Marquis of Bohai County. He was known as Gao Changshi in the world.