Meaning: On a bright moon night, on a hill of dwarf pine trees. These two sentences are the author's imagination of the deceased wife's state of mind on a cold and lonely "bright moon" night. Here the author imagines the pain of the deceased to express his condolences, which makes people have endless aftertaste.

From Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi·Dreams on the 20th day of the first lunar month of Yi Mao" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty. The original text is:

At night, I had a deep dream and suddenly returned to my hometown. I was dressing up by the small window. They looked at each other without words, only a thousand lines of tears. It is expected that the broken part of the intestines will be cut off every year, on a bright moonlit night, there will be short pines.

Translation:

Last night I returned to my hometown in my dream, and you were dressing up at the window of the cabin. You and I were silent and miserably silent, only we shed a thousand lines of hot tears. Unexpectedly, the place where I missed her was on a hill with dwarf pine trees on a bright moonlit night.

Extended information

Creative background:

When Su Dongpo was nineteen years old, he married Wang Fu, who was sixteen. Unfortunately, destiny is unpredictable, and Wang Fu died at the age of twenty-seven. This was a huge blow to Dongpo, and the deep pain in his heart and mental pain are self-evident. In 1075 AD (the eighth year of Xining), Dongpo came to Mizhou. On the 20th of the first month of this year, he dreamed of his beloved wife Wang, and wrote this memorial poem that has been passed down through the ages.

About the author:

Su Shi (January 8, 1037 - August 24, 1101), also named Zizhan, also named Hezhong, also known as Tieguan Taoren and Dongpo Lay scholar, known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian in the world, is a Han nationality and a native of Meishan, Meizhou (now part of Meishan City, Sichuan Province). His ancestral home is Luancheng, Hebei Province. He is a famous writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty.

His writing is bold and unbridled; his poems have broad themes, are fresh and bold, are good at using exaggerated metaphors, and have a unique style. Together with Huang Tingjian, they are called "Su Huang"; He sent a representative, and was also called "Su Xin"; his prose writings were grand and bold, and he was called "Ou Su" together with Ouyang Xiu, and was one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties".

Su Shi was also good at calligraphy and was one of the "Four Masters of the Song Dynasty"; he was good at literati painting, especially ink bamboo, strange rocks, dead wood, etc. There are "Dongpo Seven Collections", "Dongpo Yi Zhuan", "Dongpo Yuefu", "Xiaoxiang Bamboo and Stone Picture Scroll", "Old Wood and Strange Stone Picture Scroll" and so on.

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