The stars are all in the water. What do you mean?

All the bright stars in the sky are reflected in the water, which looks like the sky. A little fishing fire is like floating in the sky, and people on fishing boats are like paddling on the Milky Way.

From Suiyuan Poetry, Volume III.

Poetry with the Garden is a poetic aesthetic and theoretical work created by Yuan Mei in Qing Dynasty. Suiyuan Poetry is about the poet's innate qualifications, acquired moral cultivation, study and social practice, and from writing about scenery and love to singing about things and history.

From conception, to writing and sentence refinement, from diction and rhythm, to various expressive techniques and artistic styles such as comparison, sustenance, naturalness, emptiness and twists and turns, as well as the revision, appreciation, compilation and even writing of poetry, all aspects related to poetry can be described as all-encompassing.

Suiyuan Poetry Talk is the most influential poetry talk in Qing Dynasty. Its system is arranged in units of articles, and each article is either a comment, a note, or a poem (or several poems), which is an essay style. The purpose of compiling this book is to advocate the theory of spiritual nature and poetic nature, in order to oppose the prevailing theory of Shen Deqian's tune and Weng Fanggang's tendency to take textual research as poetry.

This book was compiled after the author resigned. With the support of Fu Zi Bi Yuan and others, it was being compiled in the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong (1790).

Addendum until the author's death, written in Jiaqing years.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Suiyuan Poetry