The loveliest thing is that on the night of the third day of September, the dew is round like a pearl and the new moon rises like a bow.
Original text:
A sunset gradually sank into the river, half green and half green.
The loveliest thing is the ninth day of September. The bright pearl's bright crescent moon is shaped like a bow.
Precautions:
Dusk: Dusk.
Jiang: It refers to the Yangtze River. One refers to Qujiang Pool, a scenic spot southeast of Chang 'an.
Yin: a form of ancient poetry.
Sunset: Sunset.
Se se: the name of the gem, bright green. Here, it is used to describe the color of the half river that the sunset can't shine.
Poor: cute.
Zhu Zhen: That is, pearls.
The moon is like a bow: on the third day of the ninth lunar month, the first quarter moon bends into a bow.
About the author:
Bai Juyi (772-846) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word Lotte,No. Xiangshan lay. Xinzheng, Henan, was born in Taiyuan (now Shanxi) and later moved to Xiatuo (now northeast Weinan, Shaanxi). Zhenyuan Jinshi, awarded the secretary provincial school book lang. During the Yuanhe period, he served as a doctor of Zuo Zangyi and a doctor of Zuo Zanshan. Later, due to the above requirements, the murderer who stabbed Prime Minister Wu was severely arrested, offended powerful people and was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. In the early years of Changqing, he was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou, and Bao Li was appointed as the secretariat of Suzhou in the early years, and later served as the minister of punishments. In literature, he advocated that "articles should be written in time, and songs and poems should be written for things", and he was an advocate of the New Yuefu Movement. His poetic language is very popular. There is a collection of Bai Changqing handed down from generation to generation.
Creative background:
This poem was written by Bai Juyi on his way to Hangzhou in the second year of Changqing (822). At that time, the court politics was dark, and the party struggle between Niu and Li was fierce. The poet tasted the taste of being an official and asked to go abroad. After leaving the imperial court, the author was relaxed and carefree, and wrote this poem along the river on the way.
Appreciate:
This is a masterpiece of landscape writing. The poet chose two groups of scenes from sunset to the rising of the new moon to describe them, used novel and ingenious metaphors to create a harmonious and peaceful artistic conception, and expressed his deep feelings and love for nature through chanting. The whole poem has beautiful and fluent language, fresh style, vivid, meticulous and true painting style, and its subtlety has always been praised.