A poem about the Lantern Festival

original text

Light on the fifteenth night of the first month.

Zhang Hu in Tang Dynasty

Thousands of doors were unlocked and brightly lit, and they moved to Dijing in the middle of the first month.

Three hundred wives danced in sleeves and wrote the sky in an instant.

translate

On the Lantern Festival, thousands of families go out of their homes, and countless lanterns light up in the street, as if the whole Kyoto is shaking.

Countless ladies-in-waiting sleeve dances, the joy of singing and dancing on earth rose to the sky.

theme

This poem describes that everyone is out of the house, people are empty, they come to entertain themselves, and then they return to the Lantern Festival, making the Lantern Festival the most poetic and fascinating moment.

Extended data

author

Zhang Hu (about 785-849), a poet, was born in Qinghe (now Qinghe County, Xingtai City) in the Tang Dynasty. His family background is prominent, and he is called Zhang Gongzi, and he has the reputation of "a celebrity in the family". I lived in Gusu in my early years. In Changqing, Ling Huchu recommended it, but it was not reported. The princess mansion was excluded by Yuan Zhen, and her former residence was Huainan, where she loved Danyang music and lived in seclusion.

Throughout Zhang Hu's life, he has made remarkable achievements in poetry creation. "Thousands of miles away, a maid-in-waiting lived here for twenty years" was named after Zhang Hu, and 349 of his poems were included in The Whole Tang Poetry.