In the autumn night, candlelight reflects the painting screen and beats fireflies with a small fan.
The stone steps at night are as cold as cold water, sitting in the bedroom staring at the cowherd and the weaver girl.
Original poem:
Late Tang Dynasty: Du Mu
In the autumn night, candlelight reflected the screen, and Fan slapped the fireflies with his hand.
The stone steps at night are as cold as cold water, sitting and staring at the cowherd and the weaver girl.
Introduction:
Du Mu (AD 803-852), a native of Fanchuan, Mu Zhi, Han nationality, was born in Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi, Shaanxi). Du Mu was an outstanding poet and essayist in Tang Dynasty, the grandson of Du You, the prime minister, and the son of Du You.
This poem is about the loneliness and bitterness of a frustrated girl's life. The first sentence is about autumn scenery, and the word "cold" is used, which implies the crisp atmosphere in autumn and shows the inner loneliness of the hero. Write two sentences to kill time and relieve depression by flapping fireflies. Three words: I can't sleep at night, waiting for good luck, taking the street as water to compare your love as ice. In the last sentence, I admire the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to express my grief.
Extended data:
This poem is about the lonely life and sad mood of a maid. The poet reflected the dark side of court life with compassionate brushstrokes.
The first two sentences of this poem describe the scenery of autumn night. Write an autumn night. On the autumn night, the silvery candlelight and moonlight set off the painting screen, and the candlelight and moonlight added a word "cold", which made people feel infinite chill.
At this time, a maid-in-waiting was catching fireflies flying around with a small silk fan. These two poems describe the desolation of the palace and the boredom and loneliness of the ladies' lives. The maid-in-waiting had nothing to do, so she used a small fan to fly fireflies to pass the long night. Although fireflies are beautiful, they are born in the desolate wild.
The maid-in-waiting is in the palace, but her yard is full of fireflies, which shows that her life is lonely and desolate, and this loneliness is reflected in the action of flapping fireflies. The maid-in-waiting had nothing to do, so she had to use fireflies to relieve her inner loneliness.
The autumn night is heavy and the night is as cool as water. It's time for bed, but the maid-in-waiting is still sitting on the cold steps, dragging her chin and looking up at Altair and Vega. This directly wrote the cold and cheerless palace. "day order": the stone steps of heaven, which refers to the stone steps of the palace. The stone steps in the palace are as cold as water, quiet inside. At this time, perhaps the maid-in-waiting was tired and sat on the stone steps to rest, feeling that the stone was so cold.
In these two sentences, the poet borrowed the fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and expressed the longing of the maid-in-waiting for sincere love. Although the maid-in-waiting is trapped in the deep palace, she is helpless, but deep down, she still longs for a beautiful and unforgettable love.
This sentence points out the voice of ladies-in-waiting. Maids-in-waiting look up at the Cowherd and Weaver Maid in the sky, or envy their love, or sigh for the Cowherd and Weaver Maid across the Milky Way. Maybe she is sad at the thought of her unhappy life.
The whole poem uses line drawing to describe the life of a maid-in-waiting catching fireflies, without any lyric, but it shows the reader the inner heart of a maid-in-waiting
Baidu Encyclopedia-Autumn Night (Du Mu's Seven-character quatrains in Tang Dynasty)