Looking at the moonlight and snow-like buckwheat flowers in the outfield of Qianmen.

Country night

Year: Tang Author: Bai Juyi Genre: Four Musts

In a piece of autumn grass that was grayed by frost, insects were whispering, and everyone around the mountain village disappeared.

Looking at Noda from the front door alone, the moon is in the sky and the flowers are like snow.

The last two sentences mean: a person goes out of the house and looks at the fields. Buckwheat is bathed in moonlight, and the flowers under the moon are as white as snow.

The sentence "Look at Noda before going out" is not only a transition in the poem, but also changes the object of description from the village to the field. It is also the turning point of the two couplets, which draws a bleak atmosphere of the village night and unfolds another refreshing picture: the bright moonlight shines on the endless buckwheat field, which looks like a crystal white snow from a distance, bright and dazzling. "The bright moon is in the sky, and the buckwheat flowers are like snow". What a touching scenery, the picturesque beauty of nature infected the poet, which made him forget his loneliness for a while and could not help but marvel. This magnificent scene is in sharp contrast with the description in the first two sentences. The poet skillfully wrote the emotional changes of the characters through the transformation of natural scenery, which was so flexible and free without trace; And simple and natural, it is kind and touching to read and memorable. No wonder Tang and Song poetry praised it as "plain and plain, without fake makeup, with its own age, and the closest to the ancient among the seven wonders".