Describes the moonlit night, people's houses, stars, the sound of insects, green window screens and other scenery. Set off the silence of the moonlit night.
"Moonlight Night" is a five-character poem written by Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. It was written by the author when he was imprisoned in Chang'an and looked at the moon and missed his home. This poem uses imagination to express his wife's longing for him and his own longing for his wife.
The first couplet imagines his wife looking at the moon in Yanzhou and missing him, which reveals the poet's longing for his family in Chang'an; the chin couplet says that the children look at the moon with their mother and do not understand their mother's longing for their relatives, which expresses the poet's longing for her children and her family. The neck couplet depicts the imaginary wife looking at the moon and longing for her, full of sad emotions; the tail couplet expresses hope of getting together in the future and looking at the moon together, contrasting the pain of lovesickness today. The whole poem has novel conception, tight organization, clear words, sincere feelings, profound and moving.
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Moonlight Night / Night Moon
Tang Dynasty: Liu Fangping
The moonlight is deeper than half of the house, and the North Dipper is slanted in the south.
Tonight I know that the spring air is warm, and the sound of insects is new through the green window screen.
Translation
The night is deep, the moonlight is shining slantingly on half of the courtyard, the Big Dipper is horizontal in the sky, and the Southern Dipper has also tilted to the west.
Tonight I unexpectedly felt the warmth of early spring, and heard the chirping of spring insects penetrating the green window screen.