夜半钟声到客船

夜半鐘聲到客船
yèbàn zhōngshēng dào kèchuán
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 at midnight the temple bell reaches the traveller's boat

Examples

HSK 7-9
Dào le Sūzhōu, wǒ cái míngbai " yèbàn zhōngshēng dào kèchuán " xiě de shì Hánshānsì de zhōngshēng.
Only when I got to Suzhou did I understand that 'at midnight the bell reaches the traveller's boat' is about the bell of Hanshan Temple.

Tips

history
The last line of 张继's 《枫桥夜泊》, after 姑苏城外寒山寺. 欧阳修 objected that no temple rang its bell at midnight; later writers answered that temples around Suzhou did.

Stroke Order

夜 yè
半 bàn
钟 zhōng
声 shēng
到 dào
客 kè
船 chuán