Get up at dawn, the bells of horses and chariots have shaken; Traveling all the way, the wanderer misses his hometown.
The chicken is loud and clear, and the thatched shop is bathed in the afterglow of Xiao Yue; Footprints are blurred, and the wooden bridge is covered with early spring frost.
The first pair of couplets, "Begging for priests in the morning and visiting my hometown sadly", describes the time and mood of the poet's departure. The poet got up before the bell of the post station rang, which shows that the poet is eager to climb the mountain and hit the road early. The word "homesickness" points out the reason why the poet left early, and shows his restless sleep and the inner pain of homesickness.
The second couplet, "The cock crows in Maodian and the frost in Banqiao", tells what the poet saw and heard when he first left the post office. Here, the poet wears a string of noun beads with emotional red lines, which forms a colorful morning picture for us: the rooster holds his head high, crows and pecks a new page of the calendar. At this moment, the waning moon is still hanging above the western sky, and the cold moonlight is accompanied by the footsteps of early pedestrians in the journey. "Mo Daojun left early and there were many early pedestrians." Footprints of pedestrians have been left on the wooden bridge in front of the shop covered with silver frost. After the poet's careful choice of words, a beautiful frost morning picture jumped to the page. There is a famous sentence in Ma Zhiyuan's poem "Tian Jingsha" in the Yuan Dynasty, "Old vines faint crows, small bridges flowing, old roads west wind thin horses". If traced back to the source, it can't be said that it won the interest of Wen's Frost Morning Map. The second couplet describes the crow of a chicken, the shape of the waning moon, the traces of people, the description of silver frost, sound, color, light and temperature, but the outstanding focus is on the word "early", but the poet skillfully visualizes and concretes the word "early".