The meaning of the poem is:

The moon has set and the crows are cawing and the cold air is filling the sky, so I sleep in sorrow to the maple trees and the fishing fires by the river.

The sound of the bell ringing in the middle of the night reaches the passenger boat at the lonely and quiet Cold Mountain Temple outside Gusu City.

The Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge

Tang Dynasty: Zhang Ji

The moon is falling and the crows are crowing and the sky is full of frost, the maple trees and the fishing fires are sleeping in sorrow.

The cold mountain temple outside the city of Gusu, the sound of bells arriving at the passenger boat at midnight.

Translation

The moon has set and the crows are cawing and the sky is full of frost, and the maple trees and the fishing fires on the river are sleeping with sorrow.

The sound of the bell ringing in the middle of the night reaches the passenger ship at the ancient temple on the cold mountain outside Gusu.

Expanded Information:

Appreciation

As a poem of traveling and service, "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge" has the same characteristics as "The Maple Bridge".

As a poem of traveling and service,

Fengqiao Night Poetry

has an influence that is hard to compare with many similar poems. From time, it stretched over a thousand years through the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, until the contemporary era, there are still influenced by it, but also produced popular songs, from space, not only in the country is widely known, but also spread overseas, such as Matsui Ishigen, why do you want to steal the Cold Mountain Temple monument?

It is because the Japanese have a fondness for this poem, it is said to copy are used to recite, and even was selected into the textbooks of Japanese elementary school, the master of the national academy, Yuyue in the new revision of the Cold Mountain Temple, it is written that where the Japanese literati, salty and ink to come to see the Hut. See then often talk about the Cold Mountain Temple, and said its country three feet of children, no can not recite the poem. That is to say that there is no child who will not memorize the song "Maple Bridge Night Poetry".

So in 1929, Japan built a temple in Qingmei Mountain, also known as the Cold Mountain Temple, this temple is modeled after the Cold Mountain Temple in Suzhou and built a stone monument, also engraved with Zhang Ji's poem "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge," also built a midnight bell clock tower, but also in the neighborhood of the valley of the clear water on the bridge specially built for the maple bridge. Such a great influence, which is invisible to tell the poem beyond the charm of time and space ah.

Reference:Baidu Encyclopedia - Maple Bridge Night Poaching