On the Poetry of Sleeping in Jiande River at Night

Sleeping in Jiande expresses the poet's melancholy and homesickness when he stays in a foreign land overnight. This poem is a five-character quatrain written by Meng Haoran, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty in China. It depicts the scenery the poet saw when he stayed in Zhu Xiao at dusk. This poem is also a famous sentence in ancient landscape writing.

The original poem is as follows:

Spend the night on Jiande River.

Author: Meng Haoran

Stop the boat in a foggy small state, when new worries come to the guest's heart.

The vastness of the wilderness is deeper than trees, and the moon is very close to the moon.

Commentary: When the ship was moored on this misty continent with steaming water vapor, the sun set and the night was hazy, which added some new sadness to the hearts of guests in different places. Vilen is very open, the distant sky seems to be lower than trees, the river is clear and bright, and the moon slowly rises to the sky.

Appreciation: The first two sentences of this poem mainly explain the background of boating at dusk, depict the dim little house and the twilight picture, and set off a somewhat deserted atmosphere. The last two sentences are about scenery. Yuan night sky, low sky. Only the bright moon comforts itself. The whole poem has a natural meaning and a subtle artistic beauty.