The whole poem is:

"Mid-Autumn Festival" - Wang Shouren of the Ming Dynasty

Last year the Mid-Autumn Festival was cloudy and sunny, and this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is cloudy and cloudy again.

Good times don’t come around very often in a century, but they are always white hair.

My heart has its own bright moon, and our reunion will last forever.

The mountains, rivers and land are surrounded by clear brilliance. Why bother with the Mid-Autumn Festival to enjoy the scenery?

Translation:

Last year the Mid-Autumn Festival was cloudy at first, but eventually the sky became clear and the moon was visible, but this year the Mid-Autumn Festival is always cloudy.

In a person's life, the beauty of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival cannot be seen many times, not to mention that there are more and more gray hairs on a person's head.

But there is a bright full moon in my heart, which will always be there through the ages and will never lack independence.

The mountains, rivers and land are bathed in its glory. This kind of happiness does not have to be found only in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Creative background and appreciation

On the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1521, the fifty-year-old Wang Yangming was serving his seventy-six-year-old father in his hometown of Yuyao, Zhejiang. This Mid-Autumn Festival has been cloudy and cloudy, and it did not dissipate until night. Because he was with his father, Wang Yangming was still in a happy mood even though he couldn't see the full moon in the sky. That night, he wrote a poem "Mid-Autumn Festival".

The "Bright Moon" mentioned in Wang Yangming's poem refers to the "conscience" he realized in Longchang, Guizhou after going through the test of life and death. This conscience is not only the original heart of man, but also the heart of heaven and earth. Wang Yangming said: "The principles of heaven are in the human heart, from ancient times to the present, and have no beginning or end. The principles of heaven are conscience." The eternal and infinite principles of heaven do not need to be found in the stars in the universe, but should be found in people's hearts. It is the conscience in people's hearts.

There are thousands of principles in the world, but there is only one heart. There is no reason outside the heart. When you find the heart, you also find the reason. One principle contains all principles, and all principles are still one principle. How to find your heart? To keep one's heart in mind, to do good and to avoid evil, this is "developing conscience".

The great road is in everyone's own heart. There is no need to seek it from outside. As long as it reaches its conscience, it will get the essence of the heart. Only conscience is the home of people's happiness and can make people escape from the joys and sorrows of the world. Be freed from it and become a truly transcendent person. ?

When everything in life is conscience, life will reach the highest state of "doing what you want without going beyond the rules", and you will enjoy a real life that is consistent with your own life essence. ?

The highest realm of life is difficult to achieve, but you should yearn for it. Even if you cannot reach it, you still have to enshrine a bright moon in your heart.

The world is revealed by my heart. If my heart is dirty, the world will be dirty; if my heart is bright, the world will be bright!