The poem "The wind is unstable, people are still at first, and the path should be full of red sunsets tomorrow" comes from "Heavenly Fairy·Water Tune Several Sounds while Holding Wine and Listening" by Zhang Xian, a poet from the Song Dynasty.

Original text:

Hold the wine and listen to the sound of water, and you will wake up after being drunk in the afternoon and worry about not waking up.

How long will it take to send the spring and spring back? The mirror will hurt the scenery at night.

In the later period of the past, the province was empty, and the sand was covered with birds and the pond was dark.

When the clouds break and the moon comes, the flowers make shadows, and heavy curtains cover the lights.

The wind is uncertain and people are calm at first. Tomorrow the red sunset should fill the path.

Translation: Hold the wine glass in hand and listen carefully to the sound of "Water Melody Song". Although you wake up from drunkenness at noon, you still feel sad. Sending spring away, when will spring come back? As evening approaches, I look in the mirror and feel sentimental about the passing years. The smoke of the past will make me ponder in the future.

The mandarin ducks sleep together by the pool after dusk, and the flower branches dance with their beautiful shadows in the moonlight. A layer of curtains tightly blocks the lights, the wind has not stopped yet, the voices of people have been quiet, and the sunset will surely cover the paths in the garden tomorrow.

Extended information:

Creative background

According to the preface of the poem, the author was a judge in Jiahe (now Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province) when he wrote this poem. According to Shen Zufen's "Appreciation of Song Ci", Zhang Xian served as a judge in Jiahe around the first year of Qingli reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty (1041), at the age of fifty-two. But the love story written in the poem has nothing to do with the content of the Xiaoxu. This small preface may have been used by a puppet to remember where and when the poem was composed. It was mistaken for the title of the poem and was passed down.

This is one of the famous poems in the Northern Song Dynasty and is also Zhang Xian's famous work. It got its name because of the sentence "the clouds break and the moon comes, and the flowers make their shadows" in the poem. According to various commentaries cited in Chen Shidao's "Houshan Poetry Talk" and Hu Zai's "Tiaoxi Yuyincong Talk", it is said that Zhang Xian's poems are famous for three lines with the word "shadow" in them. Known as "Zhang Sanying".

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