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Village Night is a seven-character quatrain written by Lei Zhen, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. This is a poem describing the night scene of the countryside.

original work

Country night

In a pond full of grass, the water is full of water, and the mountains cover the waves.

Cowherd's child sat on the cow's back and casually played the tune with piccolo.

Vernacular translation:

Green grass covered the pond, and the water in the pond almost overflowed the bank. Castle peak in the distance, with scarlet sunset glow in its mouth, reflects the shadow in the water together, shining with waves. The little shepherd boy rode on the back of the cow and went home slowly; Holding a piccolo, playing casually, without a fixed voice.

Extended data:

Creation background

Judging from the style of this poem, it was written by the author when he lived in seclusion and visited the farmhouse in his later years (probably during the period of Song Duzong). ?

Brief introduction of the author

Lei Zhen, life is unknown. Or that Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan) is a scholar in Jiading, Song Ningzong. He was also said to be a native of Nanchang (now Jiangxi) and was a scholar in the first year of Song Duzong Xianchun (1265). For his poems, see Chronicle of Song Poetry (Volume 74).