The Original Text of The Guest and Its Translation

The original text of The Guest is as follows:

Mei Huang Shi, every family was flooded by rain, and the pond was covered with green grass and frogs.

It's past midnight, and the invited guests haven't come yet. I tapped the chess pieces bored and shook the wick of an oil lamp.

In Huangshi, plums, every family is covered with rain, and frogs come from a pond full of grass. It's past midnight and the invited guests haven't come yet. When I lit the oil lamp, I beat the chess piece bored and broke the knot on the wick.

Being in contact with someone for a long time will inevitably lead to anxiety. This is probably an experience that everyone will have. It is difficult to write interesting poems. However, this little poem by Zhao Shixiu is just like this emotion, but it is very profound and has a rich aftertaste.

Overall appreciation

Ke is a seven-character quatrain written by Zhao Shixiu, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. This poem is about a poet visiting alone on a stormy summer night. The first two sentences explain the environment and season at that time, with plum blossoms, rain, ponds and frogs everywhere, and write the summer night scene in the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River: the rain is incessant and the frogs are incessant.

This seemingly lively environment, in fact, the poet wants to reflect its silence. After the second period, people and things appeared, and the owner waited patiently and anxiously, doing nothing, knocking on the chess pieces and quietly looking at the shiny snuff. Poetry expresses the poet's inner loneliness by writing scenery, which is harmonious, fresh, meaningful and intriguing.

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