original text
Thoughts in the dead of night
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
The foot of my bed is shining so brightly. Is there frost already?
I looked up at the moon and looked down, feeling nostalgic.
literal translation
The bright moonlight sprinkled on enough paper in front of the bed, as if the ground was frosted.
I couldn't help looking up at the bright moon in the sky outside the window that day, and I couldn't help but bow my head and think of my hometown in the distance.
Appreciation of quiet night thinking
Silent Night Thinking is a poem written by Li Bai in an earlier period, which was written in 726 AD, that is, in the 14th year of Tang Kaiyuan. Li Bai should have been 26 years old by then. According to historical records, Li Bai left home in 724 AD. Li Bai had been away from home for nearly two years when he wrote Silent Night Thinking. It is conceivable that Li Bai misses his relatives at home and is homesick. One autumn night, the poet Li Bai was lying in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, so he had to get up. Standing by the small window, Li Bai looked up and saw a full moon on the horizon. This is like being caught off guard. Li Bai thought of his hometown thousands of miles away, and wondered whether his family was well and happy, and a feeling of homesickness arose.
There are only four short sentences and twenty words in the whole article. This poem is very different from the one that Li Bai has been writing. It has no flowery rhetoric, nor does it use all kinds of strange artistic techniques. It's simple. However, this poem has magical power, and a few words are thought-provoking, attracting wanderers who are far away from home. The whole poem, from "looking up" to "bowing down", vividly exposes the poet's psychological activities and makes readers deeply feel the poet's homesickness at that time. Thousands of years ago, poets couldn't sleep at night because they missed their loved ones and their hometown. Thousands of years later, there are also wanderers who leave home, with the same mood and the same behavior.
Li Bai's life
Li Bai is one of the greatest poets in the history of China. He left a deep impression in the history of China's poetry, which is the peak of Tang poetry. Li Bai is an uninhibited person who likes to drink and write poems. Especially after drinking, he often expresses his passion and resorts to the pen.
Li Bai was born at 70 1. The specific place of birth is difficult to verify. Now there are many places competing for the title of Li Bai's hometown, and his origin is quite bizarre. His family background and ancestors are not recorded. Some people say that his ancestors were Li or Li Yuanji. Li Bai was very clever when he was young, and he could write poems at the age of 15. And he likes fencing very much. Fencing is unique.
At the age of 24, Li Bai left his hometown for Shu. After a tour in Shu, he went to Shu. At the age of 27, he became the husband of Xu Shi, the granddaughter of the former prime minister, through the introduction of his good friend Meng Haoran, and has since settled in Anlu. Li Bai has always wanted to enter the officialdom. He has written many times to inquire about the long history of the local area, but he failed because he was slandered by others. Later, at the age of 30, I traveled to Chang' an, and there was no income between princes and nobles. Frustrated, Li Bai finally chose to return to Anlu's home to live in seclusion.
Just after Xuanzong advocated Taoism in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai himself was deeply influenced by Taoism. When Xuanzong was hunting, he presented the Great Hunting Fu, which coincided with Xuanzong's mood at that time. Later, he was able to enter Chang 'an and was praised by many people, but he was still not reused. So I sent out the feeling of "difficult to go" and left Chang' an for Shandong. Later, because of the recommendation of whom, Li Bai finally won the trust of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, but Emperor Xuanzong only regarded him as a court scholar and did not participate in any state affairs at all. Later, because he participated in the rebellion of kings after the Anshi Rebellion, although he survived death, he was sent to Yelang and later died in bed in 762.
How many poems did Li Bai write?
Li Bai, a poet, is the most famous great poet in the history of China literature. If literature is compared to a weapon, then Li Bai's poems and songs are the most gorgeous and free of all weapons. In his works, there is no restraint, no common sense, no secular feelings, and he shows his heart with a confidence that ordinary people can't imagine.
Throughout Li Bai's life, he wrote many poems, including more than 900, and now he has added some, about 1000, while Li Bai claimed to have 10000. I don't know if there are so many poems or rhetoric after Li baijiu, or if they are not written in my heart. Li Lao lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty during the Anshi Rebellion, so most of Li Bai's poems and songs are full of romance and heroism. Whether it is a seven-character quatrain or a five-character quatrain, it is a rare masterpiece in history and the greatest romantic poet in China.
Li Bai's poems are rich and widely circulated in his life. Here, I would like to introduce a most popular poem, Thinking of a Quiet Night. Probably any pupil can recite this poem. As one of the most popular poems in China, it is too simple, without complicated vocabulary and profound quotations. Simple words, like nursery rhymes, have touched countless adults. "The foot of my bed is shining with such bright light. Is it frosty already? "Li Bai sat on the bed with the moonlight shining on the ground. Maybe many people want to know why they can see the moon when they look up in bed. Is the house broken? In fact, Ma Weidou and others think that "bed" is not a bed now, but a long bench. Imagine that Li Bai is sitting on a bench, drinking wine, looking at the moon and thinking about his hometown. How poetic.