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Tang Li Bai Emei Mountain moon half round autumn, shadow into the Pingqiang River flow.
At night, Qingxi went to the Three Gorges, and Sijun did not see Yuzhou.
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"Moon Song of Mount Emei" is a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, which expresses the poet's feelings of missing his relatives and friends in his hometown by describing the night scene that the poet Lu saw in the boat. The full poem is as follows:
The moon of Mount Emei is half in autumn, and the shadow enters the water flow of the Pingqiang River.
At night, Qingxi went to the Three Gorges, and Sijun did not let his pants see Yuzhou.
Vernacular translation: In front of the lofty Mount Emei, there is a half-round autumn moon hanging. On the flowing Pingqiang River, the bright moon shadow is reflected.
Set off by boat at night, leave Qingxi and go straight to the Three Gorges. I miss you but it's hard to see each other, and I'm reluctant to go to Yuzhou.
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Creative background: "Moon Song of Mount Emei" is a poem by the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty. This poem was written by Li Bai when he left Shu at the beginning of his career, and was written in the autumn of the twelfth year of Kaiyuan (724).
At that time, Li Bai wrote this poem on the way to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River after leaving Shuzhong. Mount Emei is a big mountain in Shu, and it is also the name of Shu. Li Bai is a Shu person, so the moon of Mount Emei is also the month of the old garden.
This is a poem written by Li Bai when he first left Sichuan, which is attached to the landscape of his hometown, and writes about the night scene that the poet saw in the boat: half an autumn moon hangs high above Mount Emei, and the moon reflects the flowing in the water of the Pingqiang River. The first sentence is to look up, writing about the static scene; The second sentence is a top-down view, writing a dynamic scene.
The third sentence writes the place of departure and going, and the fourth sentence writes about missing friends. The whole poem uses five place names in a row, showing a thousand-mile Shu River travel map through the mountains and moons and rivers.
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Meaning: In front of the tall and delicate Emei Mountain, there is a half-round autumn moon hanging. On the flowing Pingqiang River, the moon shadow is reflected.
Emei Mountain Moon Song.
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai.
The moon of Mount Emei is half in autumn, and the shadow enters the water flow of the Pingqiang River.
At night, Qingxi went to the Three Gorges, and Sijun did not see Yuzhou.
Translations. In front of the lofty Mount Emei, there is a half-round autumn moon hanging. On the flowing Pingqiang River, the moon shadow is reflected.
Set off by boat at night, leave Qingxi and go straight to the Three Gorges. I miss you but it's hard to see each other, and I'm reluctant to go to Yuzhou.
Exegesis. Mount Emei: In the southwest of present-day Emei County, Sichuan.
Half Quarter: A semi-circular autumn moon, i.e., the first or second quarter moon.
Shadow: The shadow of the moonlight. Pingqiang: that is, the Tsing Yi River, in the northeast of Mount Emei. It originates from Lushan in Sichuan and flows through Leshan into the Minjiang River.
Night: Tonight. Hair:
Let's go. Qingxi: refers to Qingxi Station, which belongs to Qianwei, Sichuan, near Mount Emei.
Three Gorges: refers to the Yangtze River Qutang Gorge, Wu Gorge, Xiling Gorge, now at the junction of Sichuan and Hubei provinces. One refers to the three gorges of Ploughshare, Bei'e and Pingqiang in Leshan, Sichuan, and Qingxi is in the upper reaches of Litou Gorge.
Jun: Refers to the Emei Mountain Moon. One refers to the author's friends. Downstream: Downstream. Yuzhou: The seat of governance is in Ba County, in the area of present-day Chongqing.