Ming Hotel of the Ring

Light on the fifteenth night of the first month.

Zhang Hu [Tang Dynasty]

Thousands of doors were unlocked and brightly lit, and they moved to Dijing in the middle of the first month.

Three hundred wives danced in sleeves and wrote the sky in an instant.

Translation:

On the Lantern Festival, thousands of families go out of their homes, and countless lanterns light up in the street, as if the whole Kyoto is shaking.

Countless ladies-in-waiting sleeve dances, the joy of singing and dancing on earth rose to the sky.

Precautions:

Qianmen: describe the magnificent buildings of the palace group, with a large number and thousands of households.

My wife: At noon, a geisha in the palace entered Yichun Hospital and was called "my wife".

Write: same, or "have". This sentence describes this song as high-pitched, but it also means that the music is sweet, just like Yue Xian's blood.

Creative background:

This poem was written around 705 A.D. (the first month of the first year of Emperor Wu Zetian's Dragon) and describes the Lantern Festival in the period of Emperor Wu Zetian. Some scholars believe that this poem was written in the first year of Wu Zetian's Chang 'an (that is, the first month of Dazu's first year, 70 1). This poem describes that everyone has gone out, people go to the empty building, enjoy themselves, and then return to the Lantern Festival scene, which is the most poetic and soul-destroying moment.

Appreciate:

This poem describes that everyone is out of the house, people are empty, they come to entertain themselves, and then they return to the Lantern Festival, making the Lantern Festival the most poetic and fascinating moment.

The Tang Palace is brightly lit, full of singing and dancing, with a bird's eye view and a close-up of martial arts. The scene is spectacular and the weather is magnificent.

Thousands of doors are unlocked: "Thousands of doors are unlocked" means that many doors are unlocked. "Thousands of doors" generally refers to many doors. Everyone went out when the door opened.

"Thousands of lights" means that there are many lights, but the lights are on. Move the capital in the middle of the first month: "the middle of the first month" means the fifteenth day of the month. "Dynamic" vibration. Describe excitement. "Imperial Capital" refers to the sleeveless dance of the hundred wives in the capital and the capital: "Three hundred wives" should refer to many maids. "300" is also a description of a large number of people, which is not true. "Sleeve dance" means dancing with words in the air for a while. "Moment" refers to the "sound of nature" at that time, which means that the joy of singing and dancing in the world went straight into the sky and spread to the sky. It is also a lively and grand song and dance, and there are many people in the street, and the sound can reach the sky directly.

About the author:

Zhang Hu (he) (about 785-849? ), Ji Cheng, a poet, was born in Qinghe (now Qinghe County, Xingtai City) in the Tang Dynasty. His family background is prominent, and he is called Zhang Gongzi, and he has the reputation of "a celebrity in the family". I lived in Gusu in my early years. In Changqing, Ling Huchu recommended it, but it was not reported. The princess mansion was excluded by Yuan Zhen, and her former residence was Huainan, where she loved Danyang music and lived in seclusion. Throughout Zhang Hu's life, he has made remarkable achievements in poetry creation. "Thousands of miles away, a maid-in-waiting lived here for twenty years" was named after Zhang Hu, and 349 of his poems were included in The Whole Tang Poetry.