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床前明月光，疑是地上霜。舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉。(誤版)
床前看月光，疑是地上霜；舉頭望山月，低頭思故鄉。(原版)
In the Quiet Night
So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed –
Could there have been a frost already?
Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight.
Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.
Pensée dans une nuit tranquille
Devant mon lit, la lune jette une clarté très vive ;
Je doute un moment si ce n'est point la gelée blanche qui brille sur le sol.
Je lève la tête, je contemple la lune brillante ;
Je baisse la tête et je pense à mon pays.
The 床 is translated/understood usually as "bed". But this has created quite a bit of controversy. It just does not quite fit with the rest of the poem. See http://www.pkucn.com/viewthread.php?tid=143829 for an entire thread on this topic. And this issue has been discussed all over newspapers and TV programs.
But it's amazing how people overlooked the obvious. The simplest explanation is that the 床 here is a shorthand for 石床, a typical bench carved out of stone that is used in people's backyards. A search for 石床 not only reveals for pictures of these Tang-dynasty objects, but also other poems from the same period. Moreover, the 听松石床 is a famous bench related to Li Bai's uncle.
http://www.lvyou100.com/GuanLiYuan/UpLoad/200904270229189616.jpg
唐诗人皮日休："殿前日暮高风起，松子声声打石床"。
夜寻卢处士(耿湋)
月高鸡犬静，门掩向寒塘。夜竹深茅宇，秋庭冷石床。住山年已远，服药寿偏长。虚弃如吾者，逢君益自伤。
早秋夜坐(贯休)
微凉砧满城，林下石床平。发岂无端白，诗须出世清。邻僧同树影，砌月浸蛩声。独自更深坐，无人知此情。
Sometimes it amazes me how the Chinese need hundreds and hundreds years to correct their mistakes. Information just propagates so slowly there. 听松石床 is not a new object, it existed from the time of Li Bai, for everyone to see. Yet the Chinese just were never able to connect the dots.
床前明月光，疑是地上霜。舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉。(誤版)
床前看月光，疑是地上霜；舉頭望山月，低頭思故鄉。(原版)
In the Quiet Night
So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed –
Could there have been a frost already?
Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight.
Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.
Pensée dans une nuit tranquille
Devant mon lit, la lune jette une clarté très vive ;
Je doute un moment si ce n'est point la gelée blanche qui brille sur le sol.
Je lève la tête, je contemple la lune brillante ;
Je baisse la tête et je pense à mon pays.
The 床 is translated/understood usually as "bed". But this has created quite a bit of controversy. It just does not quite fit with the rest of the poem. See http://www.pkucn.com/viewthread.php?tid=143829 for an entire thread on this topic. And this issue has been discussed all over newspapers and TV programs.
But it's amazing how people overlooked the obvious. The simplest explanation is that the 床 here is a shorthand for 石床, a typical bench carved out of stone that is used in people's backyards. A search for 石床 not only reveals for pictures of these Tang-dynasty objects, but also other poems from the same period. Moreover, the 听松石床 is a famous bench related to Li Bai's uncle.
http://www.lvyou100.com/GuanLiYuan/UpLoad/200904270229189616.jpg
唐诗人皮日休："殿前日暮高风起，松子声声打石床"。
夜寻卢处士(耿湋)
月高鸡犬静，门掩向寒塘。夜竹深茅宇，秋庭冷石床。住山年已远，服药寿偏长。虚弃如吾者，逢君益自伤。
早秋夜坐(贯休)
微凉砧满城，林下石床平。发岂无端白，诗须出世清。邻僧同树影，砌月浸蛩声。独自更深坐，无人知此情。
Sometimes it amazes me how the Chinese need hundreds and hundreds years to correct their mistakes. Information just propagates so slowly there. 听松石床 is not a new object, it existed from the time of Li Bai, for everyone to see. Yet the Chinese just were never able to connect the dots.