From: Anonymous Jiangsu Folk Song in Southern Song Dynasty
Poetry:
The bright moon shines on Kyushu, and several families are happy and sad.
How many couples are together, and how many are wandering outside?
Translation:
A new moon shines on the world, and how many people are happy and how many people are sad. How many couples are still loving each other at home, but how many couples are wandering outside and can't come back?
Precautions:
1, moon: refers to the moon.
2. Kyushu: China. This refers to the world.
3. Luo Zhang: The gauze curtain on the ancient bed.
4. drifting: drifting.
The extended information "Moon Bends Kyushu" is a local folk song popular in Jiangsu Province since the Southern Song Dynasty. This folk song comes from the Jian Yan period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 ~1130), and describes the people's suffering from chaos. It is also recorded in the folk songs compiled by Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty.
This song reveals that when the ruling class in the Southern Song Dynasty was invaded by foreign countries, it did not resist, brutally oppressed the domestic people, lived a luxurious life, and made the people suffer from war. The moon shines on the land of China. Under a blue sky, some families live happily, but the broad masses of people are sad and live a hard life without food and clothing.
The poet wrote from the moon that the rise and fall of the moon seems to be connected with the joys and sorrows of the world, because this is a psychological tendency of the ancients to associate the changes of natural phenomena with personnel. However, the poet denied this view, thinking that the sadness and pain in the world are caused by people themselves and have nothing to do with the change of the moon. To get rid of these troubles, we must be tolerant.
The poet takes a very positive view of the joys and sorrows of life and thinks that only by relaxing his mind can he have an open and honest life realm.