巴山夜雨涨秋池

巴山夜雨漲秋池
Bā Shān yè yǔ zhǎng qiū chí
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 night rain on Ba Mountain swells the autumn pond
  2. 2 Li Shangyin's line of separation - writing back north from rainy Sichuan, the rain comes to stand for homesickness itself

Examples

HSK 5
Tā yī gè rén zài Chóngqìng chūchāi, chuāngwài zhèngshì Bāshānyèyǔzhǎngqiūchí.
Alone on business in Chongqing, outside the window 'night rain on Ba Mountain swells the autumn pond.'
HSK 6
Gěi yuǎnfāng de qīzi xiěxìn, tā zìrán xiǎngqǐ " Bāshānyèyǔzhǎngqiūchí ".
Writing to his faraway wife, he naturally thought of 'night rain on Ba Mountain swells the autumn pond.'

Tips

history
From 《夜雨寄北》 by 李商隐 (Li Shangyin, late Tang): 君问归期未有期,巴山夜雨涨秋池。何当共剪西窗烛,却话巴山夜雨时. A letter to his wife (or a friend) up north - the rain in the present becomes an anticipated memory to share later.
usage
巴山 = the mountains of Ba, today's eastern Sichuan / Chongqing region - the ancient state. Still used as a literary name for that region.

Stroke Order

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