Meaning: The object you are eager to pursue is far away, on the other side. You can look at your heart, but you cannot touch it. You can long for it forever, but you can never reach it. To me, you are like the bright moon in the sky, but I can't reach it.
Han Guang in Nan Zhou, Guo Feng is one of the Nan Zhou in Guo Feng in the Book of Songs, a realistic poetry collection in the pre-Qin period, and it is a folk song in the pre-Qin period. This poem is a love song that men pursue and women can't get.
The lyric hero is a young woodcutter who falls in love with a beautiful girl. He always can't get what he wants, and his feelings are tangled. Facing the vast river, he sang this touching poem and poured out his melancholy.
The specific writing time of this poem is unknown. Three scholars who studied the Book of Songs in the Western Han Dynasty believed that the vast area between Jianghan was civilized in Zhou Wenwang, where women had virtue of chastity, so the poet wrote this poem and praised the beautiful women there by comparing the trees, goddesses and Jianghan.