When a chicken crows at the Maodian Moon, people walk on the Banqiao Frost. From the Tang Dynasty's "Good Morning Walk".

Commentary: the chicken is loud and clear, and the thatched shop bathes for more than a month; The slab bridge was covered with frost, leaving the footprints of the first guests.

Banqiao, frost and people on the frost are also characteristic scenery. The poet set out on the road before the cock crows at dawn and the waning moon sets, vividly describing the scene of leaving early, full of the poet's sadness of missing his hometown in the countryside and his bitter thoughts of traveling to serve.

This poem was written when Wen left Chang 'an for Xiangyang, passing through Shangshan. Although Wen is from Shaanxi, he has lived here for a long time and regards it as his hometown. Trapped in the imperial examination hall for a long time, he was forced to make a county magistrate in his late fifties. It can't be said that he is in a good mood, and the feeling of going to the countryside and homesick is inevitable.

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The antithetical couplet "The cock crows in Maodian and the frost walks in Banqiao" is the most wonderful one in the whole poem, and it is also a well-known sentence, which is lamented by the great poet Su Shi as a swan song. These two sentences are about the experiences and feelings of the early morning journey. The language is extremely concise and concise, and the scenery is real and sensible.

Here, the poet used the method of spreading brocade. The six images of "chicken crow", "Maodian", "moon", "man", "Banqiao" and "frost" together constitute a specific situation: the waning moon is hanging high, the sky is slightly shiny and the surroundings are quiet; Suddenly, the chicken crowed in Maodian, and the whole world was randomly agitated; On the night of autumn and winter, the cold wind was hunting, and there was a layer of frost on the slab bridge, which was printed with the footprints of the first guests.