Seven or eight stars are before the rain at two or three o'clock. What does this ancient poem mean?

Meaning: It's cloudy with stars, flickering and light rain in front of the mountain.

From: Song Xin Qiqi, Huangsha Road Nights on Xijiang Moon.

Original poem:

Xijiang Moon Night Tour Huangsha Road Middle Section

Song Dynasty: Xin Qiji

The moon on the horizon rose to the top of the tree, scaring away the magpies perched on the branches. The cool evening breeze seems to have spread to cicadas in the distance.

In the fragrance of rice and flowers, people talk about the harvest of a year, and frogs croak in their ears, as if in a bumper harvest year. In the old days, Maodian was near the forest, and the road turned to the stream bridge.

Explanation:

The bright moonlight swept the branches, scaring the magpies away from them, and the cool evening breeze seemed to hear cicadas chirping in the distance. In the fragrance of rice flowers, people are talking about the harvest year, and there are bursts of frogs in their ears.

The sky is cloudy and starry, flickering, and there is a light rain in front of the mountain. The old thatched cottage is still next to the Woods of the earth temple. When the road turns the source of the stream, it suddenly appears in front of you.

Xijiangyue: epigraph name. Huangsha: Huangshaling, in the west of Shangrao, Jiangxi. Don't scare the magpie: scare the magpie away from the branches. Cicada: Cicada chirps. Old times: the past. Maodian: a country inn built of thatch. Schelling: Woods near the Earth Temple.

Extended data

This word deliberately describes the night scene of Huangshaling: bright moon and breeze, sparse stars and sparse rain, cicada singing, rice fragrance and frog singing. The whole poem describes the mountain village scenery in summer night from three aspects: vision, hearing and smell. It is a masterpiece of rural life in Song Ci.

The words "surprise magpie" and "singing cicada" contain the silence in the movement and describe the scenery under the "breeze" and "bright moon" in the middle of the night, which is leisurely and charming. Next, "in the fragrance of rice and flowers, there is a bumper harvest, listening to the sound of frogs." People's attention shifted from the sky to the fields, indicating that the poet was not only infiltrated by the soft smell on the yellow sand road at night, but also paid attention to the fragrant rice flowers all over the village, and was associated with the upcoming harvest scene by the fragrant rice flowers.

There are seven or eight stars in the sky, two or three before the rainy mountain. The "stars" here are sparse stars, and the "rain" is a slight shower, which is in line with the quiet night, quiet atmosphere and simple atmosphere in the upper city.

The former's "turning the road" and the latter's "suddenly enlightened" not only show the poet's sudden enlightenment and the joy of being close to his old house, but also express his ecstasy because he was immersed in the fragrance of rice flowers and even forgot the distance of the road. The two complement each other, which reflects the author's profound artistic foundation and is intriguing.

Xin Qiji's ci expressed his patriotic enthusiasm for restoring national unity, poured out his grief and indignation, exposed and criticized the humiliating surrender of the upper ruling clique in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there were also many works praising the motherland.

The artistic style is diverse, mainly bold. The fierce conflict between ideal and reality constitutes the tragic tone of his ci. On the basis of Su Shi's Ci, Xin Ci has further expanded the scope of the subject matter, almost to the point where everything has to be unintentionally written.

Words are bold and unconstrained, but eclectic, gloomy, bright, inspirational and charming. He is good at using concrete techniques and strange imagination to endow the mountains, water, wind, moon, grass and wood in nature with emotion and character, and place some hopes on them. He is also good at absorbing folk spoken language, especially at using allusions, using things and quoting poems and sentences of predecessors, and often makes a little transformation and creates new ideas.