Quiet Night Thoughts

Li Bai [Tang Dynasty]

The light of the bright moon in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground.

Lift your head to look at the bright moon, and bow your head to think of your hometown.

Translation: The bright moonlight sprinkled on the window paper, as if a layer of frost had risen on the ground. I couldn't help raising my head to look at the bright moon in the sky outside the window that day, and couldn't help lowering my head in deep thought, remembering my distant hometown.

This poem describes the feelings of a poet living abroad on an autumn night when he looks up at the moon in his house and thinks of his hometown.

The two lines of "looking up at the bright moon, thinking of my hometown" have been passed down through the ages. Although the language of these poems is simple, they express the praise and love for the bright moon in the best possible way, and have been passed down to the present day.