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(1) (Tang) Meng Haoran
Sleep at the dawn of spring,
Sniffing birds (3).
At night (4) the sound of wind and rain,
Little is known about flowers.
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Sleep sweetly until dawn in the spring night,
When I woke up, I only heard birds singing outside the window.
In retrospect, it seemed rainy and windy last night.
The stone steps in the yard must be covered with colorful fallen flowers.
To annotate ...
Xiao Chun: Early morning in spring. Dawn refers to the time when it is just dawn.
(2) Unconscious: unconscious, unaware.
(3) Sniffing birds: hearing birds chirping; Smell and listen; Cry and sing.
(4) come at night: at night.
Creation background
This poem was written by Meng Haoran when he lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain, and its artistic conception is very beautiful. The poet seized the moment when he just woke up in the spring morning to describe and associate, vividly expressing the poet's pity for spring.
Correlation extension
1, Meng Haoran (689~740), born in the Tang Dynasty. His real name is unknown (a surname is Hao), and he is from Xiangyang, Xiangzhou (now Xiangyang, Hubei). The word Haoran, known as "Meng Xiangyang" in the world, is also known as "Wang Meng" with another landscape pastoral poet, Wang Weihe, a famous landscape pastoral poet in the Tang Dynasty. Once lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain. Meng Haoran's Collection handed down from ancient times has three volumes.
2. Chunxiao is often used as a riddle poem, and the answer is benzoin/guessing things like a dream/guessing idioms.