Song Dynasty: Su Shi
Chen Bing Mid-Autumn Festival, happily drank the next morning, drunk, wrote this word, and missed my brother Su Zhe.
When did the moon begin to appear? I take my glass from a distance.
I don't know the palace in the sky, and I don't know the month and time.
I'm willing to ride the wind to the sky, I'm afraid I can't stand the cold for nine days in a pavilion of fine jade.
Dance and enjoy the shadow of the moon, which is in the world.
The moon turned into a scarlet pavilion, hanging low on the carved window, shining on the sleepy self.
The moon should not have any resentment against people. Why is it round when people are gone?
People are sad and happy, and they are separated and reunited. The moon will darken or shine, and it will become round or round. Nothing is perfect, even in the past.
I hope people will live for a long time and have a good scenery thousands of miles away.
Translation:
On the Mid-Autumn Festival of Chen Bingnian (A.D. 1076), I drank happily until dawn, got drunk, wrote this word, and missed my brother Su Zhe.
When did the bright moon begin to exist? I picked up my glass and asked the distant sky.
I don't know about palaces in the sky. What year is tonight?
I want to go back to the sky with the wind, and I'm worried that the beautiful jade buildings are too high for me to stand the cold.
Get up and dance and enjoy your clear shadow in the moonlight. The moon palace is nothing like on the earth.
The moon turned the scarlet pavilion, hung it low on the window, and looked after the people who were not sleepy in the room.
Mingyue shouldn't have any resentment against people, but why is it always round when people leave?
People have joys and sorrows, and the moon has changed from sunny to sunny, which is difficult to be comprehensive from ancient times to now.
I hope people can stay together for a long time, even if they are thousands of miles apart, they can enjoy the beautiful moon together.
Extended data
First, the creative background
This word was written by the author during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Song Shenzong on 1076 (the ninth year of Xining). The preface explains the process of writing: Su Shi, because of his different political views from Wang Anshi, a political reformer in power, sought to open up to the outside world and became an official everywhere. He once asked to be transferred to a place near Su Zhe to be an official, so that his brothers could get together more.
In A.D. 1074 (the seventh year of Xining), Su Shi knew Mizhou. After arriving in Michigan, this wish still cannot be realized. On the Mid-Autumn Festival in A.D. 1076, the moon was bright and Yin Hui was everywhere. The poet and his younger brother Su Zhe had not been reunited for seven years. At this moment, the poet is facing a bright moon, and his heart is full of ups and downs, so he wrote this famous article with the strength of wine.
Second, the appreciation of works
This word is a work of appreciating the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, expressing the infinite yearning for my brother Su Zhe. Chen Bing lived in Xining in northern Song Shenzong for nine years (A.D. 1076). At that time, Su Shi was the prefect of Mizhou (now Zhucheng, Shandong Province). On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, he enjoyed the moon and drank until dawn, pretending to be this song "Water Tune".
The poet uses imagery to describe a kind of atmosphere in which Su Shi, a bright moon in the sky, travels thousands of miles, is aloof and broad-minded, and respects Confucianism and pays attention to practice all his life. However, he is also "good at Taoism". After middle age, he said that he would "return to Buddhism and become a monk", and he was often entangled in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Whenever they are frustrated, Laozi and Zhuangzi's thoughts rise to help them explain the confusion of poverty and progress and retreat.
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