This poem is from "Night Journey on the Xijiang River" by Zhang Jiuling, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Excerpts from the original text:
Where are people at night? Visit the moon in Chengtan.
Long and spacious, longing for home.
Translation:
In the long night, where are the people who know each other? I sailed slowly in my boat in the moonlight.
The sky is vast and far away, and it is more and more sad to miss my hometown.
Extended data:
The combination of scenery and emotion in this poem highlights the author's deep yearning for his hometown, which is also one of Zhang Jiuling's most commonly used techniques. Throughout the poem, he not only described a beautiful and clear night scene of the bright moon, but also described his homesickness. Poetry came to an abrupt end here, and people were still unfinished.
The first sentence of this poem tells that the author travels at night, and the night is fresh and refreshing. It is Gao Yueming. In this sentence, the author describes a fresh and bright night scene and lays the basic style for the whole poem.
The second sentence is a parallelism sentence, which expresses the author's homesickness. By comparing Tianyu with his hometown, he highlights the author's yearning for his hometown.
In the third sentence, the author wrote the scenery again, describing the quiet surrounding environment and the clear and transparent water surface, which highlighted the nobleness of the author's own character from another side.
The fourth sentence, wrote my homesickness. When I went to Qiu Lai in spring, the author sat alone in such a silent night. Cold dew grew around him and wet his clothes. However, when he woke up from meditation, it was already dawn. At this moment, he suddenly heard a crane on the water give a cry, interrupting his thoughts and his thoughts, making his thoughts come to an abrupt end. At the same time, his poems also came to an abrupt end, giving people endless associations.
References:
Xijiang Night Travel-Baidu Encyclopedia