Written in a dream by Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty
The flute is played in the cool night, thousands of mountains are covered with moonlight, and the road is dark and charming with hundreds of flowers.
After playing chess, I don’t know how people have changed. When I’m in the wine market, I feel helpless and homesick.
This poem expresses the author's anxiety and helplessness about his future due to his failure in official career, and his desire to leave officialdom and return to his hometown.
Writing features: one sentence for each scene; scenes and emotions blended together; the dialogue is very skillful.
The poet expresses complex thoughts and feelings through the scene in his dream: the first two sentences describe the dream of a quiet autumn night, creating a misty and desolate atmosphere, expressing the desolation of the poet's frustrated career; the third sentence uses Wang Zhiguan The chess story expresses the poet's desire for a leisurely life. The fourth sentence describes the scene of drunkenness in the dream, expressing the poet's helplessness of living in a foreign country. The whole poem uses (dream) scenery to express emotions, expressing the poet's emotions of being frustrated in his official career and homesick for his home.