Poetry starts with a small scene and draws a hazy, quiet, cold and beautiful autumn night picture of Jiangnan water town. One or two sentences in the poem, although written in autumn night, can still make people feel the colors and shapes of all kinds of autumn objects along the river, as well as the sounds and emotions; Moreover, the meaning of the word before and after is linked with cause and effect, which is inferred. Three or four sentences are a capital pen, which spread the bell of Hanshan Temple a mile away.
It expresses the poet's lonely and sad homesickness during his journey.