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An Old Song of the Moon
小时不识月
As a child, I did not know what the moon was,
呼作白玉盘
And called it a white jade plate.
又疑瑶台镜
I wondered if it was a mirror from a heavenly palace,
飞在青云端
Flying high among the clouds.
Meaning
A child calls the unfamiliar moon a white jade plate or a shining heavenly mirror. This lesson reads the opening four lines.
About the poet
Li Bai was a Tang poet known for vivid imagination and poems about nature, friendship and longing.