The moon phase is: the third day of the ninth lunar month, the first quarter moon.
The new moon is on the first day of each month in the lunar calendar. When the moon moves between the sun and the earth, the moon faces the earth with its dark side and rises with the sun, so people can't see it. At this time, the moon phase is called "new moon" or "new moon".
The poem "A setting sun is spreading in the water, and half the river is rustling and half the river is red. On the third night of September, it is pitiful that the dew is like a pearl and the moon is like a bow. "It comes from a four-line poem" Ode to the Mujiang River "written by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The original text of the whole poem is as follows:
Ode to the Mujiang River
By Bai Juyi? Dynasty: Tang
A setting sun was spreading in the water, and half the river was rustling and half the river was red.
On the third night of September, the dew is like a real pearl and the moon is like a bow.
Translation contrast:
In the evening, the sunset is about to set, and it is gently spread on the river. The river under the sunset glow looks like bright red, but the green waves are rolling on it.
What a lovely night on the third day of September. Dewdrops on the grass stems and leaves on the shore are like rare pearls, and a crescent moon rises like a delicate bow.
Notes:
Poems written by the river at dusk. Yin, a form of ancient poetry.
setting sun: the light of the setting sun. Also refers to the sunset glow.
se se: the original meaning is bright green.
poor: cute. September 3 rd: On the third day of the ninth lunar month.
true pearls: pearls. The moon is like a bow: on the third day of the ninth lunar month, the first quarter moon bends like a bow.
Creation background:
This poem was written by Bai Juyi on his way to Hangzhou to be the secretariat of history 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 for a foreign post. The author felt relaxed and carefree after leaving the imperial court, so he wrote this poem.
About the author:
Bai Juyi (772 ~ 846) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word Lotte,No. Xiangshan lay. Born in Xinzheng, Henan Province, he was originally from Taiyuan (now Shanxi) and later moved to Xiatuo (now northeast of Weinan, Shaanxi). Zhenyuan Jinshi, awarded the secretary provincial school book lang. During Yuanhe years, he served as Zuo Yi's legacy and Zuo Zanshan's doctor. Later, due to the above request, the murderer who stabbed Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng was severely arrested, which offended the powerful and was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima.
In the early years of Changqing, he was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou, in the early years of Baoli, he was appointed as the secretariat of Suzhou, and later he was appointed 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 popular, and people are known as "Poet Magic" and "Poet King". And Yuan Zhen were called "Yuan Bai" and Liu Yuxi "Liu Bai". There is "Bai Changqing Collection" handed down from generation to generation.
Extended information
Appreciation of "Songs of the Mujiang River":
This four-line poem is a masterpiece of scenery writing. The language is beautiful and fluent, the style is fresh, the pictures are vivid, detailed and true. The poet chose two groups of scenery to describe during the period from the red sun sinking to the new moon rising, and used novel and ingenious metaphors to create a harmonious and peaceful artistic conception. The whole article uses the word "poor" to tease out deep feelings and love for nature.
The delicacy of his scenery has always been praised. Yang Shen's Poems on Sheng 'an in Ming Dynasty commented: "Poetry is full of rhyme. It is said that the sun is spreading water, and the blue of the river is like the color of rustling; Half a river is red, and the sun reflects it. It can be described as a micro-painting. " Comment on Poetry Alcohol in Tang and Song Dynasties: "It is a colorful picture of Qiu Jiang to write a wonderful scene". In the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shizhen commented on "Selected Poems of Ten Thousand Poems of the Tang Dynasty": "Beauty is absolutely beautiful and fascinating."