Before the leaves fall in Dongting, Xiaoxiang autumn is to be translated.

Before the leaves fell in Dongting, Xiaoxiang Qiu Si lived.

The leaves on Dongting Lake haven't fallen yet, and autumn has come in Xiaoxiang area.

The author introduces as follows:

Xu Zhenqing (1479-151year) was born in Wuxian (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), a native of Meili Town, Changshu, and later moved to Wuxian. The writer of Ming Dynasty, known as "the poet of Wuzhong", is one of the four gifted scholars in Wuzhong (also known as the four gifted scholars in Jiangnan). It is famous for the quatrains of "every family in Jiangzuo, flowers and trees in Yangzhou in foggy month".

The reference translation of the whole poem is as follows:

The leaves on Dongting Lake haven't fallen yet, and autumn has come in Xiaoxiang area. Open the study high, it's stormy tonight, and I'm alone in Wuchang City. The yearning for my hometown is heavy and lingering, and I can't help but feel sad when I am in Han. I don't know why Hongyan, who is high above, is willing to travel long distances and be high above.

The author's life is as follows:

Xu Zhenqing was born smart and good at art and science. He said, "There are no books at home, but everything.". In his early years, he studied literature in Wu Kuan and calligraphy in Liying Town. In literary genre, he, He Jingming, Kang Hai, Wang and Bian Gong became the "first seven scholars", emphasizing that articles should learn from Qin and Han dynasties, ancient poems should praise Han and Wei dynasties, and the patriarchal clan system flourished in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Shizhen's "Recalling Yan Yuan Yan" quoted the quatrains of "Yanyue Yangzhou, articles of every family in Jiangzuo, flowers and trees in Yangzhou".