Zhang Ruoxuan was a poet of the early Tang Dynasty, and perhaps many people do not know him; but if you talk about "Spring River Flower Moon Night", you may be able to recite his verses casually.
Yes, Zhang Ruoxuan's fame is indeed not as well-known as Li Bai and Du Fu. There are only two surviving poems of his, one of which is the famous "Spring River Flower Moon Night".
This legendary work is known as "a single piece suppressing the whole Tang", which means that all Tang Dynasty poetry is eclipsed by it.
Below, I combine my own understanding of the poem and translate this immortal passage in the vernacular.
What a spring river! It was mighty and rushed to the sea, and a bright moon jumped out of the sea with this rushing river.
Under the moonlight, the river sparkles and shines for thousands of miles; where is the spring river without this bright moonlight?!
The river bends and winds around the fragrant meadows; the moonlight illuminates the flowers-filled woods like countless tiny ice filaments.
The moonlight filled the night sky, and even the frost that drifted in the air was not perceptible; the white sand on the continent melted with the moonlight, and it was impossible to distinguish it.
The rivers and the sky merge into one, and there is not even the slightest dust.
The moon is bright and hanging high in the night sky.
O people by the river, who was the first to see this moon?
The bright moon on the river, what year began to shine on the people on the riverbank?
Human beings have multiplied and lived endlessly from generation to generation, but O moon on the river, you have never changed.
I don't know which person Jiang Yue is illuminating, but I only see the water of the Yangtze River running endlessly and rolling east.
A white cloud drifted slowly away; standing alone on the Qingfeng Pu, countless sorrows!
Which wanderer drifted away in a boat tonight? Somewhere, someone must have started acacia on a small building sprinkled with moonlight.
The lovely moonlight, wandering constantly upstairs; it should shine on the dresser away from someone else's house.
The embroidered curtain in the attic cannot be rolled away; the anvil on the clothes cannot be whisked away by this snow-white moonlight!
At this time we looked at each other, but we could not hear each other's voices.
I am willing to follow the moonlight on you.
The geese flew for a long time, but they could not fly out of the moonlight of the sky; fish and dragons jumped in the river, stirring up ripples.
Last night I dreamed that the flowers on the trees by the side of the pond were all thankful; unfortunately, halfway through the spring, you still haven't come home.
The river kept flowing eastward, and spring was almost over; the moon that shone on the river pool had slowly set in the west.
The falling moon hid in the thick sea fog; how far away jieshi was from Xiaoxiang!
I don't know how many people will go home for a reunion in this moonlight? The moon slowly setting in the west shook my thoughts and sprinkled the woods by the river.
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