Thoughts in the dead of night
Tang-Li Bai
The foot of my bed is shining so brightly,
Is there frost already? .
Looking up, I found it was moonlight.
I sank again and suddenly remembered home.
The poem Silent Night Thinking is almost a household name in China. The language of this poem is easy to understand and the artistic conception is really touching. A stranger in a foreign land is most likely to fall asleep on a moonlit night.
Gu lang yue hang
Tang-Li Bai
When I was young, I didn't know the bright moon in the sky, so I called it Bai Yupan.
I suspect it is Yao's platform, flying in the sky.
Is the fairy in the moon hanging her feet?
Why do laurel trees become round in January?
This is a Yuefu poem. A Journey to the Moon is an ancient topic in Yuefu, which belongs to miscellaneous songs. When I was young, I didn't know the sky and the moon, so I called it Bai Yupan. Look at it, like a fairy mirror, hanging high at the end of Qingyun. In the middle of the month, immortals hang their feet, and there are many branches and leaves of osmanthus trees around them. What's more, Yutu is busy getting medicine. Who will eat the elixir?
Wanglushan Waterfall
Tang-Li Bai
Rizhao incense burner produces purple smoke,
Looking at the waterfall hanging in front of Sichuan.
Flying down from 3,000 feet,
It's been nine days since I suspected that the Milky Way had set.
Li Bai's poems vividly depict the magnificent landscape of Lushan Waterfall: purple smoke rises from incense burner peak. From a distance, a huge waterfall hangs like a white horse between mountains and rivers. Look carefully at the flying momentum, as if the Milky Way in the sky has landed on the earth.
A gift for Wang Lun.
Tang-Li Bai
Li Bai will want to travel by boat,
Suddenly I heard singing on the shore.
Peach Blossom Lake is deep in thousands of feet,
Not as good as Wang Lun.
Wang Lun is a friend of Li Bai, and this is a farewell poem. It is not about parting, but seeing sincere friendship. The first two narratives show a cheerful atmosphere from the image of stepping on a song; The last two lyrics, from the metaphor of peach blossom pool, show deep feelings. The four sentences are very simple, and they seem to blurt out and come to an abrupt end. That kind of endless emotion fills the lines of this poem.
Yellow Crane Tower —— Meng Haoran's farewell on his way to Yangzhou
Tang-Li Bai
My old friend resigned from the Yellow Crane Tower,
Fireworks fell in Yangzhou in March.
Lonely sails, distant shadows, blue sky,
I only saw the Yangtze River flowing in the sky.
Meng Haoran was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty and a good friend of Li Bai. The first two sentences of the poem write out the time and place of farewell and the place where friends will go. In the last two sentences, the writer sent his friend to the east and stared at the lonely sail in the distance until the sail shadow disappeared under the blue sky. At this time, all you can see is the river flowing to the horizon. It looks like a landscape, but from the description of the landscape, we can feel the author's deep affection for Meng Haoran.
Zaofa baidicheng
Tang-Li Bai
Say goodbye to Bai Di,
Thousands of miles in Jiangling, one day.
Apes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait kept crying.
The canoe has crossed Chung Shan Man.
The poem describes that he left Baidicheng in the morning and arrived in Jiangling at night. On the way, there was a constant sound of apes on both sides of the strait, and boats quickly crossed Wanda Mountain. It fully shows the happiness of returning to the road of forgiveness. When reading the third sentence of the poem, you can pause a little to reflect the cheerful rhythm.
Wangtianmen mountain
Tang-Li Bai
Tianmen interrupted the opening of the Chu River,
Higashi Shimizu flow by this time.
Green hills on both sides of the strait are opposite.
Lonely sails come from the sun.
The Yangtze River, flowing eastward, broke the "Tianmen Mountain" with great momentum and interrupted the two mountains that straddle the east and west. The river flows east here, then turns north, causing a vortex in the narrow passage. The green hills on both sides of the strait stand opposite each other, as if welcoming the river, and a ship is coming from the distant horizon. The poet looked at Tianmen Mountain and was intoxicated by the beautiful scenery of this famous mountain.