"The sound of wind and rain at night, how many flowers have fallen" describes the season of spring. The title of this poem is called "Spring Dawn", which describes the scene of spring morning. The first line of the poem is "Spring Sleep" "Not aware of the dawn" points out the season. The author is Meng Haoran, a pastoral poet of the Tang Dynasty.
Original text:
I sleep in spring without realizing the dawn, and hear the singing of birds everywhere.
The sound of wind and rain at night makes one know how many flowers have fallen.
Last night there was constant wind and rain. How many of the beautiful spring flowers were blown down?
This poem is the work of Meng Haoran, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Meng Haoran lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain in his early years. Later, he went to Chang'an to seek an official position. He failed in the Jinshi examination and returned to his hometown. "Spring Dawn" was written when he lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain.
Meng Haoran (689-740), male, Han nationality, poet of the Tang Dynasty. His real name is unknown (one theory is that his name is Hao), and his courtesy name is Haoran. He was born in Xiangyang, Xiangzhou (now Xiangyang, Hubei), and is known as "Meng Xiangyang" in the world. Haoran, a young man who loves integrity, likes to help people in need, and is good at poetry. When he was forty years old, he traveled to the capital, and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty issued an edict to recite his poems. When he came to the point where he said, "If you don't know how to be talented, you will give up." Later, he lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain and wrote more than 200 poems. Meng Haoran and Wang Wei, another landscape and pastoral poet, are collectively known as "Wang Meng".