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Night Mooring at Maple Bridge, Zhang Ji (Tang Shi #273)
Wednesday, 24 July 2019 06:50At moonset, cawing crows and frost all over the sky.
By river maples, fishing lights: an anxious sleep.
Outside the walls of Gusu, from Cold Mountain Temple,
The tolling of the midnight bell reaches my boat.
枫桥夜泊
月落乌啼霜满天，
江枫渔火对愁眠。
姑苏城外寒山寺，
夜半钟声到客船。
Gusu is modern Suzhou, a little west of Shanghai in the Yangzi delta. The anxiety is explained as result of recent raids in the area by Japanese pirates.
—L.
By river maples, fishing lights: an anxious sleep.
Outside the walls of Gusu, from Cold Mountain Temple,
The tolling of the midnight bell reaches my boat.
枫桥夜泊
月落乌啼霜满天，
江枫渔火对愁眠。
姑苏城外寒山寺，
夜半钟声到客船。
Gusu is modern Suzhou, a little west of Shanghai in the Yangzi delta. The anxiety is explained as result of recent raids in the area by Japanese pirates.
—L.