In the autumn night, candlelight reflected the screen, and Fan slapped the fireflies with his hand.
The stone steps at night are as cold as cold water, sitting and staring at the cowherd and the weaver girl.
Translation:
The candlelight of the silver candle reflects the barren painting screen, flapping fireflies with a small fan.
The stone steps in the night are as cold as cold water, and you sit still and stare at the morning glory and Vega on both sides of the Tianhe River.
Appreciation of Autumn Night is a seven-character quatrain written by Du Mu (Wang Jian's works) in Tang Dynasty, and it is also a poem of palace resentment. This poem describes a lonely maid-in-waiting, looking up at the cowherd and weaver girl on both sides of the Tianhe River on Tanabata night, fanning fireflies from time to time to dispel loneliness, reflecting the unfortunate fate of court women and showing a lonely mood of a maid-in-waiting.
Poetry is ingenious in conception, concise and fluent in language, graceful in emotion and strong in artistic appeal, which can quite represent Du Mu's artistic achievements. From the point of view of form and structure, the whole poem combines the description of objects and scenery with narrative lyricism, showing a smart posture and being quite touching. The former aims to create an atmosphere for the latter, and the latter aims to standardize the meaning of the former, and the two are integrated.