1. Song Yang Wanli?
excerpts from
Chasing the Cool in Summer Night:
The night heat is still the same as that in the afternoon, and the door is small and the moon is bright.
it is not the wind that is sometimes cool in the place where dense insects are singing in the deep bamboo trees.
Definition:
Summer nights are as hot as daytime. I opened the door and stood in the moonlight. Cicada kept barking in the dense grove, and suddenly I felt a little lonely and cold, but it was not because of the breeze.
2. Don Jia Dao?
excerpts from the original text of Early Cicada:
Early Cicada hugs the leaves of Sophora japonica alone, making noise to the setting sun to spend the autumn.
Definition:
Cicadas in early summer are chirping alone on the leaves of Sophora japonica, and the noise of cicadas' chirping matches the setting sun with a touch of autumn feeling.
3. Don Meng Haoran?
excerpts from
from qin country to the buddhist priest yuan/Qin Zhong's Faraway Master:
and tonight in the chilling sunset-wind, a cicada, singing, weighs on my heart.
Interpretation:
When the sun sets, there is a cool breeze, and I feel even more sad when I hear the sound of cicadas.
4. Don Bai Juyi?
excerpts from
Early Cicada:
When you hear the sadness, you will feel homesick again.
Wei Shang's new cicada sounds are similar to Hun first.
Interpretation:
I feel melancholy as soon as I hear the cicada's chirping. After listening for a while, I feel homesick. How similar the cicada's chirping in the north of Wei River is to that in my hometown!
5. Song Yang Wanli?
excerpts from beginning of autumn Daily Smelling Cicada:
Autumn will come when it rains at night, and cicadas will begin to report autumn tonight.
Interpretation:
It has been raining all night, and autumn is coming. The cicada singing tonight tells the arrival of autumn.