Quotes about the Mid-Autumn Festival
1. A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without a blind date. Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, and make three people in the shadows. The moon doesn't know how to drink, and its shadow follows me. For now, the moon will be shadowed, and we must have fun until spring. My singing moon lingers, my dancing shadows are scattered. ——Li Bai "Drinking Alone under the Moon"
2. There is a bright moonlight in front of the bed, and it is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think about your hometown. ——Li Bai "Thoughts on a Quiet Night"
3. Ten frost shadows turn around the courtyard, and this evening, people are alone in the corner. Su'e may not be without regrets, but the jade toad is cold and the sweet-scented osmanthus is lonely. ——Yan Shu's "Mid-Autumn Moon"
4. The bright moon rises on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time. Lovers complain about the distant night, but they start to miss each other at night! ——Zhang Jiuling "Looking at the Moon and Huaiyuan"
5. The Huaihai Sea is as full as silver, and thousands of rainbow lights nurture the treasures of clams. If there is no moon door in the sky, the osmanthus branches will support the westward wheel. ——Mi Fu "Climb the Tower and Look at the Moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival"
6. The bright moon is easy to be low and people are easy to scatter. When you come back to drink, you will look at it again. In front of the hall, the moonlight becomes clearer and clearer, and the grass in the throat is humming and the grass is dew. There is no one in the room after the rolling curtain is pushed open, except for the old man Chu who is mute under the window. Don't be ashamed of poverty in Nandu. There are several people who write poems about the moon. ——Su Shi's "Seeing the Moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival and Ziyou"
7. When will the bright moon come, ask the blue sky for wine. I don’t know what year it is today in the palace in the sky... People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, and the moon waxes and wanes. This matter is difficult to complete in ancient times. I hope that people will live long and travel thousands of miles to meet Chanjuan. ——Su Shi's "Shui Tiao Ge Tou"
8. Raise your glass when the moon comes, and breathe out the fragrance of the bottle into the green sky. Worship the falling stars, and make appointments with the bright moon. ——Wen Tianxiang's "Initiation of the Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet"