"A body that can raise the moon must bear countless sunsets" comes from the poem Desert written by Yu Xiuhua, a Hubei poetess, which mainly expresses a tenacious belief.
"A body that can raise the moon must bear countless sunsets" literally means that a person can bear the weight of the sunset and also has the strength to raise the moon. The moon relies on the light of the sun. Therefore, if a person raises the moon, his body must bear countless sunsets.
The original text of the poem is as follows:
The Desert Yu Xiuhua
I am used to forgiving my absurdities,
and I don't know who to push them to; A body that can raise the moon
must have carried countless sunsets? ;
Now that I am old,
I can't breathe when I move; In this small and sad village,
a village without temples;
Just where can faith take me? ; In a wet spring,
forgive the lost thief;
I call my mother, sister and my lover with poems; They are across the river
I don't want to live opportunistically,
write poems;
They step on me,
It always hurts me,
I'm out of breath; Of course, death is also an opportunistic thing;
When the moon rose,
it moved once again.
Extended information:
There are many love poems in Yu Xiuhua's poems. As a woman who has lived at the bottom of society for a long time and has a broken body, she has a profound experience of the lack of love. Her love poems are not satisfied with the poetic presentation of love desire, but try their best to show the rich, complex and distinctive female subject image.
Her poems are full of complex meanings, such as the agitation and call of love, the disillusionment and realization of love, etc. Love is not so much the theme of her poems as the core proposition that causes the poet to ask ontological questions such as existence, truth and death.