"Mid-Autumn Night"
Tang - Li Qiao - Two Mid-Autumn Moon Poems
Era: Tang
Author: Li Qiao
p>Title: Two Mid-Autumn Moon Poems
Content:
Beyond the green and dim light, the east wind blows forever.
Who grows osmanthus and does not grow whorls of branches?
The cold sky above Yuan Po says that the four seas are the same.
I know that thousands of miles away, there is neither rain nor wind. Meaning: The bright full moon rises in the sky during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Everyone says that the weather is fine and the moon is shining all over the world. How do you know it will be like this thousands of miles away? It might be windy and raining there!
The poet raised questions about a customary view in ancient times. In ancient times, it was believed that whether it is cloudy or sunny on the Mid-Autumn Festival is the same all over the world and within thousands of miles. But the poet believes that the weather here is sunny, and it is safe to know that it is not windy or raining thousands of miles away. The poet's view is completely in line with modern natural science. It is common for the weather to be sunny in one place but to rain dozens or hundreds of miles away, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is no exception. It’s just that the ancients were not well informed and did not have modern communication tools, so it was not easy to discover this phenomenon.