Spring Night Moment means an unforgettable moment of joy and happiness.

The Chinese idiom, pinyin is chūn xiāo yī kè, comes from "Spring Night" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty: "A moment of spring night is worth a thousand gold, the flowers are fragrant and the moon is cloudy." The usage of the idiom of spring night: as subject and object; refers to Beautiful moment. Example: A spring night is hard to find at a price, so don’t mistake spring for spring sorrow. ——Hu Wenhuan, Ming Dynasty, "Selected Group Sounds·Wanfan Ji·Spring Tour with Beauty".

"Spring Night" is a seven-character quatrain written by Su Shi. The first two sentences describe the beautiful scenery of the spring moonlit night, intended to remind people to cherish the beautiful time, while the last two sentences describe the beautiful scenery of the rich and noble people on a good night. Scenes of singing, dancing and having fun.

The whole poem is as follows:

One moment of a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold, the flowers are fragrant and the moon is cloudy.

The sound of the singing tube is soft on the balcony, and the night is dark in the swing courtyard.

Notes

(1) Chunxiao: Spring night.

A quarter: a quarter, a unit of time. In ancient times, a clepsydra was used to record time. One day and night was divided into one hundred quarters. A moment is a metaphor for the short time.

(2) The flowers have a fragrance: it means that the flowers emit a fragrance.

The moon is overcast: refers to the moonlight casting a hazy shadow under the flowers.

(3) Singing pipe: singing and wind music.

Translation:

Spring nights, even a very short time are very precious.

The flowers exude a delicate fragrance, and the moonlight casts hazy shadows under the flowers.

Deep in the balcony, wealthy people are still singing and dancing, and the gentle singing and wind music are still diffused in the intoxicating night.

The night is already very late, and the courtyard with the swing is already silent.

This is originally a landscape poem that is easy to understand and straightforward. However, slowly, "a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold" has become a famous saying that has been passed down through the ages; and its meaning has also changed, and it is often used to describe "the short-lived happiness between newlyweds or men and women" And precious.”

Although Su Shi's poem does not simply describe the scene, but embodies the emotions in the scene, it contains the author's satire and condemnation of the officials and nobles' pursuit of pleasure and extravagant life; but there is no trace of the author's writing. It refers to the happiness in the boudoir, and there is no clue that "a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold" means "the happiness in the boudoir between a newlywed couple or a man and a woman is short-lived but precious", because the original meaning of "spring night" refers to "a spring night" ", rather than "wedding night" or "bridal chamber night"!

However, there is no way to verify when exactly "a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold" became ambiguous. Of course, this is understandable. The appreciation and study of poetry is inherently "poetry without explanation". There is never a clear or unchanging explanation, but differences will arise from time to time and from person to person. Presumably, this is the main reason why "a moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold".

For Su Shi, it is not necessarily a good thing that the two lines "a pear tree weighs a begonia" and "a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold" have been misunderstood. This exactly reflects Su Shi's rare Poetic talent. After all, this kind of completely opposite misunderstanding of poetry rarely happens to the same poet or lyricist, but Su Shi did it:

"A pear tree crushes a begonia" is obviously about the joy in the boudoir. "" was misunderstood by people as a poem about scenery. "A spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold" is obviously about the beautiful scenery of spring, but it was interpreted as a gaudy poem about the short and precious happiness in the boudoir.