The last two sentences mean "Several children at home are still fighting crickets with great interest! In the dead of night, people still keep the lights on and refuse to sleep.".
The whole poem is as follows:
The swaying Wu leaves send out the cold sound, and the autumn wind on the river stirs up the guest sentiment.
I know that there are children picking and knitting, and a light falls on the fence late at night. ——Ye Shaoweng of the Song Dynasty?
The translation of the whole poem is as follows:
The rustling autumn wind blows the leaves of the sycamore tree, sending bursts of chill. The autumn wind blows from the river, which makes me miss me when I am away from home. Think of your hometown. Several children at home are still fighting crickets with great interest! It was late at night and the lights were on, refusing to sleep.
Poem appreciation: The author expresses a variety of emotions in the poem. The author expresses a feeling of missing his hometown and his hometown. The poem expresses the author's feeling of loneliness and loneliness as he lives in a foreign country and has no fixed place to return. The poem expresses the author's thoughts and feelings about his childhood life.
About the author:
Ye Shaoweng, courtesy name Sizong and nickname Jingyi, was a native of Longquan (now Longquan City, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province), a writer and poet in the mid-Southern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home is Jianyang. His original surname was Li, and he was descended from the Ye family in Longquan. His grandfather Li Yingshi was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Zhenghe in the Song Dynasty (1115). In the third year of Jianyan of the Southern Song Dynasty (1129), Yingshi fought against the Jin Dynasty and was promoted to the prime minister of Dali Temple and the doctor of the Ministry of punishment. Later, he was demoted due to Zhao Ding's party affairs. Shaoweng was affected by his grandfather's relationship and his family business declined. When he was young, he gave Longquan the surname Ye as his son. During the period from Guangzong to Ningzong, he served as a minor official in the imperial court and was closely associated with Zhendexiu. He lived in seclusion on the bank of West Lake in Qiantang for a long time, and sang with Ge Tianmin. Ye Shaoweng wrote "Records of Hearings and Seeings of the Four Dynasties", which corrected the shortcomings of history and was included in "Sikuquanshu". The poetry collections "Jingyi's Short Draft" and "Jingyi's Small Draft Supplement" have fresh poetic language, lofty artistic conception, and belong to the Jianghu Poetry School style.