Biàn Zhīlín shuō míngyuè zhuāngshì le nǐ de chuāngzi, nǐ zhuāngshì le biérén de mèng.
Bian Zhilin wrote, 'the bright moon adorned your window; you adorned another's dream.'
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From 卞之琳《断章》 (Bian Zhilin, Broken Lines, 1935) - a four-line modern poem considered one of the masterpieces of 20th-century Chinese verse: 你站在桥上看风景，看风景人在楼上看你。明月装饰了你的窗子，你装饰了别人的梦 (You stand on the bridge watching the view; the view-watcher up in the tower is watching you. The bright moon adorned your window; you adorned another's dream). The poem's perspectival reversal - viewer becomes viewed - made it a touchstone of Chinese modernism.
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Modern baihua (vernacular) poetry, not classical, but quoted as freely as any Tang couplet. The 了 is a past/completed aspect marker, not the classical particle. Always recited with the closing line 你装饰了别人的梦.
