Mooring below Beigu Hill is a work by the Tang poet Wang Wan.
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usage
次 here is an old verb, 'to stop for the night, to moor', not the measure word for 'times'. 北固山 is a hill on the Yangtze in today's 镇江.
culture
Its couplet 海日生残夜，江春入旧年 'the sun rises from the sea while night still lingers; spring reaches the river before the old year ends' so impressed the chancellor 张说 that he wrote it out in his own hand and hung it in the hall of government.
