Yangguanqu Mid-Autumn Moon is a poem written by Su Shi, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. This poem describes the author's reunion with his younger brother Su Zhe after a long separation, enjoying the Mid-Autumn Moon, and also expresses the sadness and emotion of breaking up soon after the reunion. The following is its original text and translation. Welcome to read:

Yangguanqu Mid-Autumn Moon

Song Dynasty: Su Shi

Mid-Autumn Festival, whose real name is Xiao Qin Wang, is Yangguanqu

The twilight clouds are full of cold, and the silver and the Chinese turn to the jade plate silently.

this night is not good in my life. where can I see the bright moon next year?

translation

As night falls, the clouds are exhausted, the world is full of cold, the milky way is silent, and the bright moon turns to the sky, as white as a jade plate.

Every Mid-Autumn Festival night in my life, the moonlight is mostly covered by clouds, and it is rare to encounter such beautiful scenery as today. But where will I watch the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival next year?

Note

(1) Yangguanqu: Its real name is Weicheng Qu. Monotonous twenty-eight, four sentences and three levels of rhyme. In the Song and Qin Dynasties, Guan Yun: Weicheng Qu was a quatrain, and recently it was included in Xiao Qin Wang and renamed Yangguan Qu. It is a double tone and a big stone tone. According to the records of Tang Jiaofang, there is "Little Qin Wang Qu", that is, "Little Qin Wang Broken Array Music", which belongs to Zuobu geisha.

(2) overflow: overflowing. Dark moonlight is like water.

(3) Yinhan: Yinhe. Tang Yuanhui's "Love in July": "It's not as good as a silver girl, but a magpie becomes a bridge."

(4) Jade plate: Yu Yue. Li Bai's "Gulang Yuexing": "When I was young, I didn't know the moon, so I called it a white jade plate."

About the author:

Su Shi (1137-1111) was a writer, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi Zi Zhan,no. Dongpo lay man. Han nationality, Sichuanese, was buried in Yingchang (now jia county, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). I have a bumpy career, profound knowledge, high talent, and excellent poetry, calligraphy and painting. His writing, Wang Yang, is unrestrained and fluent, and he is called Ousu with Ouyang Xiu, one of the "Eight Great Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties"; Poems are fresh and vigorous, making good use of exaggeration and metaphor, and their artistic expression is unique. They are also called Su Huang with Huang Tingjian. The school of bold and unconstrained ci has a great influence on later generations, and it is called Su Xin with Xin Qiji; Calligraphy is good at running script and regular script, and can create new ideas. It is full of ups and downs with a pen, and it is childlike. It is also called Song Sijia with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang. Painting is the same as literature. On painting, it advocates spirit likeness and "scholar painting". He is the author of The Complete Works of Su Dongpo and Dongpo Yuefu.