Celestial Descriptions I. Sun

Description of celestial phenomena

Author: Unknown

Celestial Descriptions I. Sun

dawn

She had dreamed like this for a long, long time, when the moon in the sky had finished its journey and was about to disappear into the sea. The air is getting cooler. The sky in the east is turning white. A rooster crows in the farmstead on the right, and a rooster in the farmstead on the left responds. Their hoarse cries pierced through the walls of the coop as if from far away, and the endless sky turned white and the stars disappeared one by one.

Birds chirped. At first it came timidly from the foliage, but gradually it grew bold, and the chatter became a chorus, and the branches and leaves resounded with a trembling song of joy.

Yona suddenly felt that it was dawn, and she lifted her head buried in her hands, and then closed her eyes again, dazzled by the light of dawn.

The churning purple glow was half-hidden behind the poplar tree's avenue, casting a thousand purple and red rays of light towards the awakened earth.

Gradually, the dazzling clouds were lifted, and the sun appeared like a fireball, pouring a red light like fire on the trees, the plains, the ocean, and the whole land.

Maupassant's Life

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The sky began to dawn, and on the clean blue sky, a rosy color slowly stretched out. The blue-blue dawn crept silently through the steep mountain passes, as if searching for something that had been forgotten yesterday, and it slipped through the trees, even under the fallen leaves, and walked to every corner, dressing up the earth and making it ready for the sun's light.

Vicente Riva Palacio (Mexico) "The Lost She-Donkey"

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sunrise

I had the most majestic and magnificent sunrise at all...... Suddenly, a thin parabola rose from the inky blue clouds, and this line was bright red and shimmering with golden light, like a boiling solution, and then rushed upwards like a rocket. It dawned on me that this was the moment when the bright day burst out of the night sky. Then a few smaller redder and brighter flakes flashed through the gaps of several blue clouds. At first I was amazed, I don't know what it is, and then a small piece breaks through the clouds, and it joins up, and it melts together, and it leaps out, and it turns out that the sun has come out. It was as bright and dazzling as fire, as bright red as fire, as strong as fire, and before you knew it, all the darkness was immediately illuminated by it. In the blink of an eye, the wings of our plane turned red, and the faces of every sleeping person in the cabin seat turned red.

Liu Baiyu "Sunrise"

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Sunrise over Huangshan

We waited for about half an hour in the dawn of dawn before a small corner of the sun was revealed, reflecting the morning glow, like molten steel just poured out of the blast furnace, shining so brightly that people did not dare to open their eyes and look directly. After a while, the red sun was rising, illuminating the sea of clouds, colorful and splendid. At that time, there happened to be a strong mountain wind blowing, the clouds and smoke dispersed, the peaks and ravines were turquoise, and they appeared and disappeared in the sea of colorful clouds, changing rapidly, just like the decorative patterns on the brocade, each of which changed its style. It's hard for us to see such a scenery in color pictures and color films.

Huang Qiuyun "Autumn Journey to Yellow Mountain"

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Sunrise over Tianzhu Mountain

We took advantage of the moonlight, stepped on the beige stone steps, crossed the Feilong Stream, climbed the Dansha Peak, and came to the Sun Viewing Pavilion. The viewing pavilion is about ten square meters, small and elegant, cylindrical stone railing, four corners of the cornice. But the best place to watch the sunrise is the towering square rock. There are many spectators gathered in the sun-viewing pavilion, and people on the square stone rock are either sitting or standing, all looking eastward.

Except for a few low peaks, there is an endless open field. The tour guide said: This is the rendezvous of Anhui water diving, and the slightly arc-shaped Yangtze River on the horizon is the Yangtze River. At this time, the east is dawning, the dawn is gradually emerging, the slight light is slightly revealed, and the sky is just like a white fish belly color. A few peaks in the lower places, the shadows are full of shadows, confusing, like a skilled paper-cutting master, hand-cut out Zhang Zhang silhouette. The tour guide pointed to a mountain shadow and said, "You are the reclining Buddha found by tourists not long ago, and your Shanghai newspaper has sent a message!"

As he was talking, he only heard someone cheering in the distance, and when he looked back, it turned out that on the high mountain behind him, there were tourists watching the sunrise, and they were condescending and went out of the scenery first. When I turned my head and looked forward, sure enough, the morning glow appeared in the east, and in an instant, the sky became a colorful and magnificent world, and the tidbits of clouds shimmered with golden brilliance, like a huge carp full of golden scales, lying horizontally in the sky. Immediately afterwards, the golden light sprayed, and the crowd cheered in unison, but saw a round of fireballs rising, and for a while, ten thousand golden lights, dispel the clouds and fog, the sky was full of colorful clouds, and the spring water of the river was red, and the resting reclining Buddha also seemed to wake up, only to see him radiant and red. Turning his head to look, the towering Tianzhu Peak behind him was dyed with patches of rose, and between the overlapping peaks, there were inlaid with silver edges, flashing like a golden snake dancing wildly......

A new day begins.

Zhu Yafu "Watching the Sunrise from Tianzhu Mountain"

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Alishan sunrise

Waiting, waiting, the sky changed from the white of the fish belly at dawn to light blue. Everyone stared intently at the opposite peak, the summit of the central mountain range lit up, and then a glow shone brightly, and in the blink of an eye, the sun jumped out like a wheel. First of all, a corner and a half circle are full circle, and in an instant, ten thousand golden lights are cast on the earth, the mountains and forests are bright, the valleys are bright, the streams are also bright, the four fields are verdant, the sun is shining on the earth, and it is a new day!

Bao Xiaohui "Alishan Past and Present"

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Sunrise over Poyang Lake

In the morning, you get on the tour bus, go to Hanpokou to play, if the weather is good, you can also get the sunrise on Yang Lake. On the horizon where water and sky are connected, it changes from pale green to pale yellow, and gradually from pale yellow to crimson and crimson golden-red, and then the golden light shines brightly, jumping out of a round of red and brilliant morning sun! In an instant, the entire Poyang Lake appears to be full of vitality, with golden waves flashing on the blue surface and white sails. Then the towering Wulao Peak on the left side of Pokou and the steep Litou Jianshan Mountain on the right, ah, the hundred miles of Poyang Lake are all included in the gap between these two mountains, and Han Pokou is named after this.

Chen Zufen "Lushan"

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Sunrise over the lake

A rooster crows under the ethereal peak, waking up the lake and the mountain. When the sun woke up, it didn't have time to jump out of the lake, so it quickly radiated the dazzling brilliance of white, orange, rose, and red to the clouds in the sky. Suddenly, the sky above the lake and mountains suddenly spread out with ten thousand rays of light. The dazzling lark flies from the camphor tree, spinning like a top, and spun high in the sky. The mandarin ducks and wild ducks, which spend the night on the beach and under the rocks, also broke away from the morning glow and flew in groups towards the deep water in the middle of the lake.

Ai Xuan "Biluo Spring News"

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Sunrise over the sea

The sky turned a light blue, very light, and in the blink of an eye a red glow appeared on the horizon, slowly widening its range and intensifying its light. I knew that the sun was going to rise from the horizon, so I couldn't take my eyes off it. Sure enough, after a while, a small half of the sun appeared there, and the red was very red, but there was no light. The sun seemed to be carrying some kind of burden, slowly trying to rise upwards step by step, and at last, at last, it broke through the clouds and jumped out of the sea completely. It's a lovely red. In an instant, the crimson thing suddenly emitted a dazzling light, which made people's eyes hurt, and at the same time, the nearby clouds also shone brightly.

Ba Jin, "Sunrise on the Sea"

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At this time, the eastern water and sky pole were dyed with a patch of orange-red, which would be orange-red for a while, and then dark and light gray. In this light gray, a semicircular light red wheel light slowly baked, and half of the bright red and bright red sun suddenly emerged from under the wheel light, rising higher and higher, and jumping out of the water in a blink of an eye, so a round of red and big sun rested steadily on the sea.

Yang Shuo "Sunrise of the Yellow Sea"

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It had been gloomy and rainy for days. But now, the sky shrouded the sea and land like taut pale blue satin. Transparent clouds of red and gold surround it. A rising sun rose majestically over the rippling and glittering surface of the sea, and the ocean seemed to tremble and blush beneath it...... That's how the day began.

Thomas Mann, Tonio Kloegel

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Sun

The sun is shining on the pine needles with dewdrops, and it is really beautiful.

Du Xuan's Jinggang Mountain Essay

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Chao yang

The morning sun burned with the morning mist, a golden light. In the forest, frost-resistant pines and cypresses, as well as holly, the moist bald branches and dark green leaves shine with spring-like life. As soon as the sun basks in, the morning mist descends and seeps into the dirt, creating puffs of moisture everywhere.

Wang Xiyan "Spring Back to the Floor Heating"

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The dawn gradually showed the colors of purple, blue, and green. The rising sun reveals the first particles. I have never seen this bright red so red, nor have I ever seen this bright red so fresh. In an instant, the fireball soared into the air, and the gaze was covered with colorful clouds. Light and shadow are ever-changing, and hundreds of pillars of light are shot down from space......

Xu Chi "The Legend of Yellow Mountain"

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The sun—not as hot as it is on a hot dry day, not as dark purple as it was before the storm, but bright and lovely—rose silently from beneath the slender black clouds, shining refreshingly, immersed in its lilac mist. The thin edges of the stretched clouds shone like small snakes, and their brilliance resembled that of refined silver...... But then burst forth the wavering light, and then flew happily and majestically as if the great luminous body was rising.

Turgenev, "Hunter's Notes"

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Because of the fog, the sun looks unusual, like a person, with five senses, can feel it, and if you want to express it properly, you have to use male pronouns. The fact that he is now like that, and the fact that there is not even a single figure on the earth, immediately makes us understand the reason for the ancient worship of the sun. ...... This radiant object was nothing short of a living thing, with golden hair, a kind gaze, and a radiant look, as if God, in the prime of life, was enveloping the world and finding it full of interesting things.

Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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sun

It was May weather, and the little sun pouted like a little red mouth, busy kissing the white clouds that came and went. Some of their lips flew away in a hurry, some of them were willing to snuggle up to the little sun's red face, some turned into evil dragons and opened their mouths to swallow her, and some of them turned into little sheep and ran to beg her blue eyes. It's a pity that people haven't paid attention to such a beautiful scenery, it's not people's fault, it's just that the little sun is too shy, too spicy, and the dignitaries are sunburned.

Lao She's Philosophy of Lao Zhang

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The sun's red rim against the cloudless blue sky was affectionately next to the smooth high ground that the roadside plowed, as I had seen countless times, close to the horizon of the distant sea. The fields that were raked in brown and yellow were dyed red, as if the soil had turned the labor of countless farmers into blood-red beads.

Joseph Condra, Amy Foster

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Sunlight

Behind the peaks, the sunlight seemed to be pouring out, and the most concentrated place was a white-hot glow, the temperature of which seemed to melt everything. On some lower mountains, along with the undulating mountains, there can also be some faint pillars of light, and some can also shine on the Qingxun River, so that clusters of light and shadow float on the water surface.

Yu Bingkun "Re-voyage to Yunxia Port"

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Spring is early in the south of the day, and the real spring has actually arrived when the new calendar has just been opened. That's almost half a year faster than the icy Northeast...... Under the warm sun, the fields are full of vegetable gardens. The kale is full of white flowers, the cabbage is clustered with yellow flowers, the cabbage is in the heart, the wolfberry is swaying, the goose is yellow and green, the butterflies are dancing and the bees are noisy, what a sunny day!

Qin Mu "Spring Dawn on the Ancient Battlefield"

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The bright autumn sun shines on the vast lake. The sunlight pierced a gray cloud that swam southward, and a circle of crystalline, jewel-like blue sky gradually unfolded between the clouds, as if opening a large, blue eye that was charming and gentle. From that eye, a ray of golden light cast like a stage chasing light, and a large piece of light was reflected on the surface of the lake. The swaying surface of the lake is full of life and vitality.

Wang Xiaowen "Xingkai Lake Boat Song"

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From the cracks in the clouds, from the orange-yellow edge of the sun, the sunlight became a wide fan-like ray, projected obliquely. These rays, which were thin in the vastness of the sky, like spear edges, expanded like a rush when they reached the ground, and fell on the distant line of the brown steppe that stretched along the horizon, and decorated it beautifully, and wonderfully and cheerfully made it young.

Sholokhov "The Cultivated Virgin Land"

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The warm sunlight shone on her head from the high window, shining her golden hair tied under her little hat, and in the warm light, fine dust flew up and down.

Mrs. Gaskell "Mary Barton"

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The sunlight shone through the window like a folding fan that soon unfolded, and reflected its shadow on the floor of the room in a hazy and dull light, and then suddenly disappeared as it had appeared.

Hardy, "The Mayor of Casterbridge"

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Sun

When the troops of the first company were about to climb to the top of the mountain along the eighteen plates, the vast desert sea of clouds and fog was steadily holding up a round of red sun. The red sun seemed to be a big fireball spewed out from the melting pot of pure fire, red and bright splashing with golden flowers, warm and warm; it seemed to have been wiped by soft white clouds, bathed by the mist of Qing Lingling, bright and bright without a single blemish, the fog was full of a little moisture; it was like a rolling red cotton ball, trembling slightly through the clouds and fog, flickering towards the nine heavens. This surging red sun is driving away the darkness and spreading the light with its own ten thousand rays of morning glow. In the foothills of Taihang Mountain in early spring, under the golden sunshine, it is extraordinarily delicate and green, with the vast green sea and blue waves, and the beautiful velvet brocade in the near distance.

Liu Zicheng "In the Days of the Decisive Battle"

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The foggy gray steam that covered the sky dispersed, and the sun finally showed its face on the horizon like a dazzling shrine, turning the water on the ground from the rain into a golden liquid, and reflecting the red glow of the water like fire on the walls of the house.

Ibañez "Mayflower" (Spain)

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Sun

The slightly westerly slanting July sun was cruelly stuck in the air, shedding its scorching heat, and every stone, every piece of sand, seemed to be breathing.

Mao Dun "Rainbow"

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The scorching sun hangs high in the sky of the world. The red light shot up like a rocket to the ground, and the ground caught fire, reflecting the boiling flames like oil. Transpiration and suffocation are so intense and stuffy that people's cells and fibers are almost bursting from trembling.

Roushi "Miscellaneous Notes on the World"

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The gray gas in the sky has dispersed, and it is not very suffocating, but the sun is also more powerful: no one dares to look up anywhere, only feel that everywhere is flashing, the roof, the walls, and the ground in the air are all white and bright, and the white is full of fire, from top to bottom, the whole earth is like a huge fire mirror, and every light is like the focus of the fire mirror, and the sun is going to burn things. In this white light, every color was blind, every sound was unpleasant, and every smell was mixed with the fishy stench that evaporated from the ground. The streets seemed to be empty, and the roads seemed to have suddenly widened a lot, empty without a little coolness, and the white flowers were frightening.

Lao She "Camel Xiangzi"

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The road was scorched and hot, and the smoke was pouring from step to foot, and the air was hot and stuffy, as if a match could be lit.

Wang Yuanjian "Ordinary Laborers"

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The afternoon sun was so strong that even the water in the rice fields made a tiny sound when it was steaming. The leaves of the seedlings can afford to roll up, lose the luster of tender green, and there is no wind, people walk on the ridges of the fields with seedlings on both sides, it is so hot that they sweat all over, and it is not easy to breathe through the breath, so no one wants to come out.

Ai Wu "A Woman's Tragedy"

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The sun is scorching. On both sides of the road, ripe grains bent over in the heat, heads bowed. Grasshoppers are as numerous as blades of grass, and in the wheat and rye fields, in the reeds on the shore, they make a faint and noisy chirping everywhere.

Under this scorching hot sky, no other sound can be heard. The sky was blue and dazzling, with that orange yellow that was about to turn fiery red, like when metal was too close to the furnace.

Maupassant's Life

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Sunset

It was twilight, and the white clouds in the sky like cotton wool had gradually turned brown, and the fiery sun had come to its end half an hour earlier, leaving less than a quarter of its body, still lingering on the horizon, sending out some dark red brilliance from the northwest, so that the heat in the air could not be lowered for a while.

Qin Shouou "Begonia"

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The slanting sun in the sky and the earth set a touch or two of crimson and deep purple in the western sky. The color is ever-changing, and the silver gray, and the white of the fish's belly, suddenly turns into brilliant gold. The mountains were silent, and because of the changes of this wonderful day, it seemed that there was a sound in space! Like waves, like birdsong, like the wind howling, I seemed to hear the sound of the setting sun.

Bing Xin "Send Young Readers"

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The red sun slanting to the west, moving through the clouds, seemed to be unable to bear to look at the blood left by the enemy, and did not want to leave immediately, sometimes appearing and sometimes hiding in the white-gray cumulus clouds. Its fiery red and soft luster, which is characteristic of winter, shot out from the clouds and poured on the remains of the martyrs, and the blood was dripping with brilliant brilliance!

Feng Deying "Bitter Cauliflower"

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sunset

As the sun set, its extraordinarily red light erupted from the treetops, staining the white clouds with blood and the green mountains with blood. In this blood, it gradually fell behind the mountain, and suddenly turned into a red ball, floating in the mountainside. Now the light of the earth is no longer dazzling, the mountains are dimmed, the clouds are dimmed, and the trees are dim.

Xu Weinan "On the Mountain"

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The evening sun was so big, so red, and so round, and its glorious and beautiful shadow cast on the river wrinkled by the evening breeze, scattering a large splendor of shining, bright rose-red scales.

Cao Ming "The Original Force"

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The afterglow of the setting sun reflected on the water, turning the vast river into a colorful national flag, on which golden, purple, and red stripes glittered, leaving the light to reflect the reflection of the trees along the shore of Xiandao on the dark and calm water.

Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

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The weary sun, after burning silently for noon and morning, went down below the horizon, and the fading day glowed charmingly and sorrowfully red, like the flush on the cheeks of a sickly beauty on her deathbed. The white tent and the canopy of the canopy shrouded in a hazy flame-like rose-colored light, which shimmered brightly.

Gogol "Dikonka's Night Talk"

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The trail turned a corner, just in time for the sinking sun. A great red sun, surrounded by a long, narrow ribbon of gilded clouds, hung diagonally in the sky, as if it had set the treetops on fire, and poured its orange-red glow into the garden.

Thomas Mann, Tristan

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The sun begins to sink behind Corsica, and the mountains of Corsica are sharply outlined against the sky, majestically revealing their peaks. The great rocky mountain looked down on the boat like the giant Adamest, and it obscured the sun, which stained the top of its higher mountain red. Shadows gradually rose from the sea, as if to expel the afterglow of the setting sun. Finally, the afterglow of the sun stopped on the summit and lingered there for a while, dyeing the summit fiery red, like the summit of a volcano.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Mont Gido

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Sunset over the sea

The sunset turned into a large, ripe round tomato, slowly sinking, and the sea level suddenly jumped up, kissed it, and bit it. Rude and affectionate, he hugged it hard into his hot arms. It struggled, half-pushing, half-pushing. In an instant, the sea's chest was burned, and golden-red blood flowed out.

Lu Lei "The Sound of the Sea"

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The sun seemed to be really tired after a day of running, and there was not much heat left. The orange color of the sunset has gradually faded from dark to light, and at the same time, it slowly sinks at a speed that can be felt by the naked eye, and finally disappears completely below the horizon. But it seemed reluctant to leave, so it smeared a magnificent and moving stroke with its afterglow where the water and the sky met: the western sky seemed to suddenly build a purple "wall", and the sunset painted the wall red, and the higher it went, the red changed from ochre to pink to lighter, and finally merged with the gray-blue sky.

Keiji "Sunset and the Sea Leave Affection"

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As the sun approached the sea, the surrounding noisy voices suddenly fell silent, the sky was like a wash, and the afterglow of the setting sun painted the sky a soft orange color. The boundless sea ripples lightly, quietly waiting for the sun to return. The sunset is getting bigger and redder, but it's not dazzling at all. When the sun first touched the surface of the sea, as if suddenly frightened, it jumped lightly and left the water again. Then it sank down again, and was melted by the sea, bit by bit, and the surrounding sea water burned red. At last there was a little bit left, like a small red star, floating, jumping, flickering, and finally slowly disappearing completely. A narrow band of orange-red light in the sky gradually converged, replaced by a diffuse layer of teal.

Gu Jiong "Green Water Corner"

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The late autumn sun, with only a golden glow, floats on the smoky western cape. The sea that was originally yellow was baked by this sunset, and it was even more pitifully red. From the stern of the boat, I saw a row of flat shores of land in the distance, where I nodded vaguely. On this land shoreline, there are many thin shadows of one or two inches long, which are absolutely like the distant grass in the painting.

There were microwaves on the sea, layer by layer of thin waves, and they were reflected by the remnant sun, and they became glorious for a while. The sassy coolness is forced into people's hearts and spleens. The light sky seemed to be tears from people, and there was only a red circle around it. It is the time of thin cold and cold, and it is the twilight of crying and parting. At the head of the Yangtze River, with a few bagpipes, I got on the ship that drifted at the end of the world again.

Yu Dafu "Maritime Communication"

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Sunset over the banks of the Columbia River in the United States

That afternoon, under the "rapids" of the Columbia waterfalls and canyons, we crossed the river to the whitefish and the river that belonged to Washington. The wonders of the sunset have been encountered many times on this trip. In the far reaches of the river, the low sky swelled out to the west, and the sand and whirlpools in the river seemed to swirl up into the sky and merge into the clouds. Before long, the burning in the west was getting quieter, and we drove back between the dim woods and the dreary water of the night. We are on the banks of the waterfalls, or in the incomparable fragrance of the moist air, or in the damp and intense shadow of the autumn leaves, and it is midnight in Portland and Van Kowaje on the other side of the great river of Lumbia.

Ewen W. Thiel

Celestial Descriptions II

Moon

The waning moon is like a bow, the crescent moon is like an eyebrow, and the full moon is like a mirror. In the autumn evening, the frost moon is near the river, the bright and bright, the heart of the wave is like a silver candle beating with ten thousand points, and the river is full of bright moons.

Han Jingting "Poetry of the Moon"

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The moon, proud and cold, clings to the distant blue sky, and only the filamentous clouds weave melancholy wrinkles for it.

Liu Ke "Red Sailing Boat"

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crescent

Sure enough, the moon came out. A shining crescent moon stretched out from the peak of the ink like a silver sickle, and like a white jade cup, it poured out the moonlight like clear water...... The green fields quietly rose in the mist. A warbler sings, singing in the middle of nowhere, and its voice is like a string of bells.

Gao Ying's "Xichang Moon"

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The crescent moon is like hanging a comb in the air. People say that the moon is the kindest, the most sad and the most touchable. Whoever has any misfortune and sorrow, she always looks at you with pity, and sometimes sheds tears! Surely she is not a person who can bear to be fortunate at this time, so she hides half of her face, but her hazy light shines in sympathetically through the window lattice. The dark room also turned gray.

Feng Deying "Bitter Cauliflower"

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Half a circle of bright and flickering moon silk, glowing like white gold, quietly, almost imperceptibly embedded in the dark blue sky! I dare say that I never thought that there was such a fresh and delicate scenery in the universe, and such a jade flower as thin as silk threads and as bright as white gold! The blue sky, the silver glow, the moon circle bent, the sky drooping - what a beautiful artistic conception, how elegant the moon scene! This moon circle is so thin and so soft, yet so bright and dazzling that you can't believe it, and you may doubt that it is a phantom above your head!

Si Yu "Diary of a Small Window"

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Oh, blue and blue, unfathomable, not a trace of clouds, a little dust, the icy and jade crescent, like "hanging" in the southern sky, but it is thin and helpless, making people feel as if a scythe flew from where suddenly stopped there.

Sun Sun's "Cloud Fu"

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The crescent moon was clear and gentle, sending some soft light gently to the willow branches. There was a little wind in the courtyard, with the fragrance of flowers from the south, blowing the shadow of the wicker to the corner where there was light, and then to the place where there was no light; the light was not strong, the shadow was not heavy, the wind blew slightly, it was all gentle, everything was a little sleepy, but it had to move softly. Below the crescent moon, above the willow tops, there is a pair of stars like smiling fairy eyes, teasing the crooked crescent moon and the gently swinging willow branches. There was a tree on the other side of the wall, full of white flowers, and the faint light of the moon illuminated the snow half white, and half with a slight gray shadow, showing an unimaginable purity.

Lao She "Crescent Moon"

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crescent moon

A crescent moon hangs high in the sky, casting a faint silver light on the water, adding to the coolness of the water. The evening incense building opposite stands deserted under the silver light, and in front of the building is a white flower. There are also mountains, stone walls, peach trees, and willow trees, each with its own color and form, and in the silvery moonlight, they all seem to contain an ulterior secret.

Ba Jin "Home"

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When she walked down the hillside, a light moonlight sprinkled on her bottom and face. A crescent moon in a crooked corner was hanging in the west, and not far from the end of the moon was adorned with the shining little star.

Xiao Jun "Mine in May"

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There was silence all around, there was not a breeze blowing between the leaves, the crescent moon was like a half-ring of gold, and the stars like small white flowers were embedded in the deep blue sky.

He Qifang "Twilight Flowers"

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The light of the crescent moon poured everywhere, pouring down on the white rocks on the slopes of the overhanging rocks, on the branches that stretched out like arms, or on the broken rocks eroded by cracks. Everything is clear and clear, everything is alive.

(Sue) Serafimovitz "Iron Flow"

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full moon

The full moon turned out to be like this, the size of a basin, red! It rose so fast that I could almost feel it moving upwards slowly. One moment the moon turned orange, another it turned tartrazine, and after another it turned white and shrunk to the size of a tea tray. The field was no longer pitch black, and the earth shone with a blue-gray cold light.

Zhang Qianyi "White Hope"

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The moonlight on his ground seemed to be covered with a seamless white veil, and the jade plate-like moon was now among the white clouds, lacking at all.

Lu Xun "Soap"

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The moon had just risen from behind the field, round and bright. On the ground, on the shimmering water, there were layers of silvery mist floating there. The frogs were talking, and the toads in the grass sang like flutes. The sharp trills of the crickets seem to be in harmony with the flickering of the stars. A gentle breeze blows the branches of the hazel trees. On the hill behind the river, the crisp song of the nightingale was heard.

Romain Rolland, Johann Christopher

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The moon was almost as round as a silver platter, the sky was clear, and the sea stretched out as if a huge silver quilt had been covered.

Black Pearl

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Moon

When the moon wheel rises, a layer of silver powder is immediately spread on the grass tops. The moon is round when it looks up, so bright and full, and when it looks down, the moon is scattered, and it sprinkles its clear light on the meadows and the hills. Admire the moon but, just make you clear and clear, if you look at the vast earth, then the soup is tidal, wisps of smoke, and the moon falls to the ground is more meteorological.

Zhang Changgong "The Soul of the South of the Desert"

I walked over to the door and opened it. It was as clear as a wash, and the moonlight that fell on the highway stretched into our house, as if the garden were waiting for us to open the door, and the night fragrance of flowers, and the sweet scent of violet wood rhinos and roses, rushed into the room violently, and in a moment it overflowed it.

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The moon is getting brighter and cleaner, making the long paths in our garden. The low-hanging branches stand on both sides of the path, the leaves reflect the gray silver light, and the colorful buds in the day, at this time, shimmer with a faint color, so ethereal, so gentle. The moonlight and the night take away all the charm of the colors, but the aromas are richer and sweeter than during the day.

Remarque's "Three Partners"

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Haoyue

Soft as flocculent, light as silk floating clouds, clustered with the bright moon rising from the sea, clear light reflects the surrounding into a round of colored halo, from deep to shallow, if there is nothing. It is not as bright as the sunset, so it is more elegant, not as brilliant as the sunset, but only gives you a little joy and a little sadness.

Zhong Meiyin "Hometown Leisure"

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The bright moon hangs high in the cloudless blue sky like a silver plate, with a hint of chill the moonlight illuminates the autumn river sparkling, sitting on a flat boat, the sky is brilliant, the blue sky and the bright moon are in the middle of a river, it is the kind of "moonlight is like water and water tomorrow" artistic conception.

Xie Shu "Autumn River Fu"

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Cold Moon

The snow had not yet melted in the previous days, and the moonlight shone white as if it were day, and the wind that came at night froze the remnants of snow all over the ground, and it only rattled when stepping on it. ...... The half-round cold moon floated among a few loose frozen clouds, like a dilapidated settlement under Lu Zhishen of the Great Xiangguo Temple, salivating and smiling. A few o'clock Shu Xing was hiding far away in the corner of the sky, and he was also winking at Lin Chong.

Mao Dun "Leopard Head Lin Chong"

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The first was silenced, and then the lights were turned off one after another, and the moon slowly appeared in the cold night sky.

The sky was as blue as a sea, with a slight floating clouds, as if someone had washed the chalk in the pen wash. The moon poured cold light waves at Chen Shicheng, which was just like a freshly sharpened iron mirror, but this mirror mysteriously illuminated Chen Shicheng's whole body, and the shadow of the iron moon was reflected on him.

Lu Xun "Moonlight"

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half-moon

Have you ever seen the moon peeking out of the dark clouds with half of its face? I seemed to be in a garden at dusk, a delicate white rose hidden under the leaves, but not as bright as the moon, and as if in an ancient painting, a shy girl with a fan covering her face, but not as chic as the moon, so detached and leisurely, walking in the Milky Way.

Zhong Meiyin "Hometown Leisure"

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The moon at night was very good, and she hung in the middle of the sky, although it was only half of it, and it was far from the group@, but she sprinkled the soft and clear light all over the world. The peaks of Qingxi Township, bamboo, wood, fields, houses, fences and haystacks are all covered in the endless white and hazy light gauze and thin silk, which looks ethereal, mysterious and beautiful.

Zhou Libo "Great Changes in the Mountains and Villages"

Moonset

The moon is about to go down, except for a few dog barks, there is no movement in the mountains by the river, on the bank of the river, there are several families, and a few woods, lying quietly in the moonlight like frost and snow, and there is a touch of green mountains outside the woods, floating there like a dream.

Yu Dafu "Past Collection"

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moonlight

The moon shines through the clouds and shines its transparent light on the square, which seems to be paved with silver. In the waterlogged depression, the shadow of the flickering moon was reflected, as if the sky and the earth, and at the same time there were countless moons, which reflected the countryside of this May night on the mountain of Gui as if in a water crystal, and turned it into a transparent, strange, fairy-tale world.

Fang Ji "Flute and Song"

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The full moon slowly rolled over the hillside, shining its light on the river. The river lay in the darkness at the foot of the mountain, and when it received the moonlight, it trembled slightly. The water flowed slowly, the moonlight flowed on the surface of the water, as if to follow the water into the river, the darkness faded second by second, but it also left a net. Mountains, trees, rivers, fields, houses, all under its net. The moonlight is soft and can't penetrate the mesh.

Ba Jin, "Moonlit Night"

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The moonlight shines in the middle of these branches. The leaves shimmered, reflecting a silvery glow. Where the road flickered and flickered there were beautiful spots of silver and black shadows. The air is filled with a mysterious greasy sweetness.

Jiang Guangci "The Wind in the Field"

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A moonlit night on the lake has a special atmosphere. On the west shore of the lake there is a hill with a bell pavilion and a meadow of trees and a path on the side of the mountain. The moonlight is here, somewhat cramped. Turning the corner of the mountain along the path, the moon suddenly lit up, and the water seemed to be much wider than in the daytime, and the water waves carried the moonlight and did not know where it flowed. ...... Under the silver light near the shore is the tall tower, and the small island in the center of the lake is lush and lush, which looks both ethereal and real.

Zong Pu "Shadow of the Lake Tower"

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The hazy moonlight casts mysterious shadows, casting a floating light on the water, like countless silverfish dancing there.

Yu Min "West Lake Scene"

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There were no clouds in the sky, and a few scattered stars were scattered in the deep blue night. In this way, the moon wheel is extraordinarily like a mirror. The moonlight was sprinkled down, and a thin layer of powder was lightly applied to the mountain surface. The sparse pine trees on the hill stood tall in the water-colored moonlight, casting clumps of dark shadows. In the valley farther away, the moonlight was blocked by the peaks, and there was gloomy. There were a few houses in the valley, and there were no outlines in the moonlit fields, only two flickering lights gave a hint in the gloom of the mountain, which was a little poetic.

Zhang Hatshui "Eighty-One Dreams"

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The moonlight floated a layer of gray above the forest, and it was just right to the asphalt-colored sky in the distance, and the Sanggan River was hidden behind the forest. There were several places in the forest where a thin layer of smoke rose from it, and this smoke did not go straight up, but wandered in a nearby forest. The moonlight shines through, making it even more hazy and soft. That's the artemisia leaves that people burn to smoke mosquitoes. The stars in the sky are sparse and bright, and the heavenly rivers are only a faint touch of white. The Big Dipper had already gone sideways, and the donkey near the left was screaming again.

Ding Ling "The Sun Shines on the Sanggan River"

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The moonlight poured silently on the leaves and flowers like flowing water. A thin blue mist floated in the lotus pond. The leaves and flowers seem to have been washed in cow's milk, and they are like dreams wrapped in light veils. Even though it was a full moon, there was a faint cloud in the sky, so it couldn't shine brightly, but I thought it was just right. The moonlight shines through the trees, and the shrubs in the high places fall jagged and mottled black shadows, and the sparse shadows of the curved willows seem to be painted on lotus leaves. The moonlight in the pond is uneven, but the light and shadow have a harmonious melody, like the famous song played by Fan Jingling.

Zhu Ziqing "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond"

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Finally the moon rose and shone on the Rhine. Everything around them glowed, darkened, and changed, and even the wine in our carved glasses shone mysteriously.

Turgenev "Axia"

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The moon shone brightly in the dark blue sky, and the moonlight seemed to be everywhere - it could penetrate the cracks, through the closed eyelids, into the bedrooms and closet rooms, into the dens of wild beasts, into the deep bottom of the pond, and illuminate the fish to float in confusion, and touch the water with its open round mouth.

That very night, the moon hung high on the shore of the pond where the footprints were tread—like a bright wing, spreading from among the trees of Walkauw's garden.

Tolstoy "The Crippled Prince"

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Mid-Autumn Moon

Looking up, hanging high in the middle of the sky is the bright and huge Mid-Autumn Moon unique to the seaside. She was round, serene, and quietly radiated a soft light, like a beautiful and kind father. The waves swayed, carrying the clear and beautiful moonlight, and happily rushed to the shore, making a low whisper of the tide. In the infinite silence, it seems that you can hear the voice of every chest of the people in your hometown and the tide in your mind......

Siyu "Looking at the Moon"

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Laoshan month

After being instructed by my companions, I found that a narrow and long path of light with egg yolk appeared on the surface of the sea. Twinkling and trembling, the tender light, goose-yellow, zigzag, from east to west. Is it the moon goddess who came on the waves? The moon rises out of the sea, and is surrounded by silky cloud girls to the sky, and then walks away, slowly moving closer to Laoshan Mountain, coldly shining on the vast world of Laoshan Mountain, with a faint clear light. Ah, I actually found a Laoshan moon!

Yang Yuyi "Laoshan Moon"

Celestial Descriptions III. Stars

stars

The black veil that the night had cast on the sea cover gradually faded, as if it had been washed away by the turbulent sea. The sky was full of stars, so scarce that it could almost be counted. Where are all the stars? Oh, they've probably gone into the sea to bathe? The surface of the sea turned white and bright, and there was a layer of foam, and a silver light shimmered, like a ribbon of its own length. Yo, the stars love the sea, too! Only the morning star still hangs in the distant sky, dazzling. Surrounded by boundless soft brilliance.

Yue Changgui "Thief Ship"

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Shining stars, like jewels, densely scattered across the vast night sky. The milky white Milky Way, from the northwest sky, across the middle heaven, slanted to the southeast land. Looking at it, people seem to be able to hear its murmuring water......

Jun Qing "New Fu of Autumn Colors"

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The houses below the mountain were lit with lights, but most of them were obscured by the trees, and only the light of the stars came to my eyes, and a mist covered them, no, not only the lights, but also the quiet street below the mountain. In addition to the semi-full moon, the clear sky is sparsely dotted with stars. Directly opposite the house shone the seven stars of the constellation Pig, and the Orion Armor star, which hung below the four corners, was the larger one, and only it radiated red light in the cloudless blue sky. Far away in the sky was the sea, white and glowing beneath the cold moon.

Ba Jin's Selected Essays

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The sky is a deep blue with a web of stars. The net is tightly covered over our heads. The stars shook on the mesh as if they were about to fall. Several times I wanted to reach for a few stars because they were so close to me.

Ba Jin's Dream of the Sea

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The stars are clear and clear in the deep blue night sky, making the whole world tranquil and poetic, deep and philosophical.

Wang Xiaoying "Stars in the Sky"

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The night is indeed beautiful. The inky sky is covered with chess pieces. I found the Pig Planet. The three in the middle are arranged diagonally in a short line, with a star in each of the four corners outside, and the reddish Orion Armor Star among the four stars is particularly bright. These seven stars are my old friends. Every time the stars shine above my head, I can find them in different places. Ah, the Eternal Star!

Ba Jin, "Autumn in Spring"

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What a strange night! There were more stars than ever, big and bright, red, green, yellow, orange, white...... Like a sparkling colored copper nail, embedded in a huge black ball. They neither blink nor flicker, they are quiet and serene, like the bright eyes of the universe.

Liu Houming "Ah Cheng's Turtle"

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star

The night is infinitely beautiful, and who doesn't know the August night, the extraordinarily bright stars that are both far and near in the August night! Lo and behold, there was a star, which seemed to be covered with frost flowers, and its body glowed with cold light, and it looked at the earth from the dark sky with an innocent look of surprise.

Aitmatov "Chamilia"

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Stars

Ah, the sky is full of stars. The shining stars are set in the dark night, like shining gems. The faint crescent moon hangs faintly in the corner of the sky, like a smiling bent eyebrow......

Zhao Canqun "Shining Stars"

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Now at sea, facing the stars every night, I know them very well. I lay on the deck and looked up at the sky. In the deep blue sky, there were countless half-bright stars. The ship was moving, the stars were moving, they were so low, they were so shaky! Gradually my eyes blurred, and I seemed to count the fireflies flying around me. The night at sea is soft, silent, and dreamy. I looked at the stars I knew, and it seemed as if they were glaring at me, and I seemed to hear them whispering. That's when I forgot everything. In the arms of the stars I smile, I fall asleep. I felt like a little kid and now slept in my mother's arms.

Ba Jin "Stars"

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The stars in the sky, like the daylight at noon, shine on the shimmering sand, reflecting so crystal clear and prosperous in our eyes. The heat of the day has hidden behind the stars, and the cool breeze sings in the treetops.

Xu Jie "Miserable Fog"

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The stars in the sky were so bright that it seemed that people had used those particles of light to make a universal sowing into the infinite space, and the moon hung its sickle-like silhouette in the center of those particles against the sky.

Maupassant, Midnight Meal

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Stars

Market Street is silent, and I haven't woken up yet. The gas lamps flickered and flickered. The shop's black blinds were bolted with an iron rod. A cool breeze kept blowing. Dr. Fischerson looked up at the sky. The dark sky was full of stars—green, red, yellow, blue, big, small, blinking, and unblinking. Some stars are clustered together in a dense group, while others are alone. ...... The countless stars continue to orbit in their predetermined orbits in the infinite expanse of space. Comets, planetary moons, and asteroids are always circling around those glowing centers. In the midst of the dramatic upheavals of the universe, some worlds were born and some died out. In the turmoil of that nebula, primordial matter was formed. Every now and then, a star breaks free and sweeps across the sky, leaving a trail of fire in its wake.

Isaac Bashevis Singh, "Spinoza on Market Street"

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Cold Star

In the harsh winter night, a few ** stars were pitifully frozen, shivering, and they could almost hear the sound of their teeth being so cold that they were fighting each other. And their eyes also show that the price they have paid for these lights is too high, and that it is better to be a farmer or a herdsman or something, wrapped in a warm coat, than to be a star in this cold sky, shining unobscured.

Pei Duofei "Grandpa"

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galaxy

Looking up, the Milky Way pours down from the top of our heads through the deep expanse of the sky, like a majestic waterfall. The dense constellation of sparkling stars resembles the splash of a waterfall.

Zhang Kangkang "To the Distance"

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Sparse Stars

The alien stars on their heads are hanging high one by one very distantly. They are scattered around the warm full moon, and the light is even weaker. The clear sky is like pulling a light blue curtain. A streamer-like wisp of cloud silk obliquely covers the heavenly river.

Luo Binji "On the Border"

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meteor

Autumn and the starry sky are as mysterious as the forests on the ground. Shooting stars scribble silver lines across the deep blue sky like a naughty boy smearing on a bluestone slab. In an instant, he fell into the unknowable.

Xiao Qian, "Roadside"

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When she opened her eyes, through the small break in the window paper, she saw a large meteor falling diagonally across the sky, like a puddle of mercury, illuminating the whole courtyard brightly.

Sun Li's "The First Chronicle of the Storm"

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Occasionally, there is a kind of meteor shower, and when it happens, hundreds of meteors pass by in an hour, as if the spokes of the palace chariot rolling through the heavenly court are shot out of the wheel pivot one by one, and like a playful celestial maiden standing in one place and throwing many shining stones in turn.

Sun Sun's "Three Fu of the Nebula and the Moon, the Three Fu of the Star"

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Hidden star

People invariably raised their heads and looked east through the Yellow River, which was rushing and shouting under the dark night, only to see the eastern sky, most of the countless stars half an hour ago had quietly disappeared, the sky close to the mountains turned white, and the peaks that winded and rose from north to south showed clear outlines......

Wang Wenshi "Red Coal"

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morning star

In the early hours of the morning, the heavy snowstorm stopped, but it was still a long time before dawn. Countless stars twinkled in the deep blue sky. On the North American plains, whenever the cold and summer tables drop sharply to the lowest point in the middle of winter, the sky always has this characteristic: the sky is full of bright stars, and there is an awe-inspiring and inviolable spirit. To the west, the constellation Orion is sinking towards the horizon. It was about five or six o'clock.

(Sue) Grove "Snow"

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Autumn Stars

Autumn night, the night is as cool as water, the mood is as transparent as water, gaze at the empty blue sky, the blue sky blinks mysteriously, the eyes of the blue sky are the stars, how far away and how clean the stars are, like a beautiful hope hidden in the depths of the heart...... Stars, each one is reverie!

Wang Xiaoying "Stars in the Sky"

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Not far to the left of the moon, a very bright star, which catches my attention the most every night. Since then, a string of three stars has been shining, and it is either "Morning Glory" or "Weaver Girl". In addition, the autumn stars are all listed in front of my pillow. Even when I close my eyes and sleep, they are still shining on me. Silently ringed, until dawn, I was handed over to the morning glow, and then the silent history fell into the sky and clouds.

Bing Xin "Send Young Readers"

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Xingyue

There were a few shining stars in the sky, a few white clouds, and a full moon embedded in the blue canopy like a jade disk. It slowly moved in the blue sky, spreading its clear light on the earth.

Ba Jin "Home"

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The sky is very clear on a summer night. The sky was full of stars, crowded together on the blue canopy, blinking their eyes, as if they were quietly discussing something interesting. Yuegu got up late, shyly pulled up a white turban, and covered her face.

Chen Yi "My Two Uncles of the Same Year"

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Overhead, the night sky was vast, but there was a lone moon, and the stars shimmered timidly in its distance, and cautiously faded farther and deeper into space.

Zhang Xianliang "Children of the River"

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It was about the third or fourth day of the old calendar, and the velvety blue and purple sky was sprinkled with stars. The half-trace crescent moon hangs obliquely on the western corner of the sky, but it looks like a fairy's moth eyebrows, without the appearance of Cui Dai.

Yu Dafu "Sinking"

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starlight

The wind is getting lighter, the sky is getting clearer, the stars are thin, but the big stars are bright. She looked into the well, which, though deep, could glow like oil and tremble like black silk. A great star shines directly into it, and it flashes in the water, so that people feel that there is no fear in the water, and there is another heaven and earth there.

Sun Li's "Zang"

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The sky is full of small stars. They did their best to weave together the little bits, not as dazzling as the sun, nor as clear as the moonlight, but bright.

The bright starlight, mixed with dew, became moist and soft, and then hung gently from the treetops, on the eaves, and on the streets, a thin layer. Everything that comes into contact with this brilliance becomes so elegant, so quiet, so serene......

Haoran "Sunny Day"

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The sky was clear, and the dark blue sky was dotted with brilliant stars. I had never seen such beautiful starlight, which could be discerned in all colors: purple, blue, golden, and the light radiated so clearly and so brightly that I could scarcely dare to look at it.

Li Guangtian "Flat City"

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Venus

Last night, in the Ohio countryside, we watched the bright and dazzling constellations in the dark blue sky. Venus, the "twilight star" in our sky, hangs low in the western sky reflected by the sunset at the beginning of night. Venus is the closest planet to Earth, about the size of Earth, and is surrounded by a thick silvery white mist. This layer of fog reflects sunlight, making it the brightest planet in the sky – the Arabs call it "the light of heaven".

Ewen W. Thiel

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When all this red light disappeared, the sky, which suddenly seemed high and far away, took on a solemn look. The first morning star shimmered in the dark blue sky. It was so big, so bright, that it was the only one in the entire desert canopy that radiated a dazzling light, like a bright lamp hanging high in the sky.

Jun Qing "A Midsummer Night on the Seaside"

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Big dipper

The Big Dipper dragged a long tail, and the two largest and largest were covered with some eyelashes. A reddish, plump, smiling countenance floated above that...... Underneath it, there were two small starlight, also with some eyelashes, and a small smiling face......

Ye Zi "Star"

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Orion

It came long after midnight, at 2:27 a.m. The fire has been extinguished. We stood at the window and looked up at the alabaster-colored peaks that surrounded the stars. In the cold mountain air of Chengsan, every star is particularly bright, and most of them are blue. The constellation Orion hangs almost above the summit. The Milky Way is on its right. Here are the stars we often see on our travels, the ones that will bring the seasons along the way, and now bring the end of summer.

Ewen W. Thiel "Summer Travels"