Twenty years of memorizing "Quiet Night Thoughts" is actually a pirated version? Uncover the story behind Silent Night Thoughts

"The bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground, look up at the bright moon, look down at the hometown."

--Don Lee Bai

In 726 AD, (the fourteenth year of the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang), around the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the old calendar, the weather was sunny. Li Bai, the word is too white, 26-year-old Li Bai, arrived in Yangzhou, looked at the bright moon outside the window, remembered home, and wrote it down. "Looking at the light and shadow of the bright moon in front of the bed, I thought that the ground was frosted, the weather turned cold, the moon stars were rare, I looked up at the mountains and rivers in the distance, the moon, suddenly red eyes, looked down and remembered my hometown." Turning around and lifting his pen, he waved it and wrote down the famous sentence of eternity: "Look at the moonlight in front of the bed, suspect that it is frost on the ground, look up at the mountain and the moon, and look down at your hometown." ”

Yes, we have memorized the "Quiet Night Thoughts" for so many years, not Li Bai's original version, according to relevant literature, the Ming Dynasty Zhao Yanguang and Huang Xiyuan revised the third sentence as "Looking Up at the Bright Moon", the Qing Dynasty Kangxi Shen Deqian revised and changed the first sentence "Bright Moonlight Before the Bed", and by the time of the Qianlong Emperor's twenty-eight years, the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" compiled by the retired soldiers of The Tang Dynasty absorbed the changes of the first two and formed today's "Quiet Night Thoughts". Both versions have their own advantages, so I will not comment here, and we should remember that the original version of the poem really looks like.

Returning to the truth, this poem was written in the fourteenth year of the new century, the early period of tang Xuanzong's rule, the agricultural technology has developed greatly, the handicraft industry has developed, the silk weaving technology is superb, the wind of tea drinking is also prevalent throughout the country, and the Tang Dynasty entered its heyday, which is known as the "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era" in history. In the twelfth year of Kaiyuan, 24-year-old Li Bai, in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, felt all kinds of beauty in this world, came to a trip that said and walked, left his hometown, a person began his own journey of fighting swords to go to the end of the world, all the way through Chengdu and Chongqing to the east, arrived in Yangzhou in the spring of the fourteenth year of Kaiyuan, and when he was alone, in an unfamiliar environment, cold early autumn, occasionally felt diseases, all kinds of things, and finally, Li Bai created this famous sentence that has been passed down to this day on that night.

It can be imagined that Li Bai at that time was full of style and prosperity, full of righteousness, and bent on bowing to the country. For thousands of years, countless people have commented, what kind of person is Li Bai, who has no way to serve the country? Or is it a mindful official? Pure wine mask? A standard rich second generation? We don't know, this is history, and we can only tell from the works he left behind that he was a great poet.

After a short period of homesickness, young Li Bai would still fight the sword to go to the end of the world and start again, how could he not have imagined that the road ahead would be so difficult to walk, there would be such a hardship.

Predict what will happen later, point a point of attention, and see the next breakdown!

postscript:

I don't remember, how old I was when I first read this poem, and I don't remember how old I first memorized this poem, but if nothing else, it should be the first poem I memorized.