我爱月夜,但我也爱星天。从前在家乡,七、八月的夜晚,在庭院里纳凉的时候,我最爱看天上密密麻麻的繁星。望着星天,我就会忘记一切,仿佛回到了母亲的怀里似的。三年前在南京,我住的地方有一道后门,每晚我打开后门便看见一个静寂的夜。下面是一片菜园,上面是星群密布的蓝天,星光在我们的肉眼里虽然微小,然而它使我们觉得光明无处不在。那时候我正在读一些关于天文学的书,也认得一些星星,好像它们就是我的朋友,它们常常在和我谈话一样。
Looking up at the starry sky, I would leave everything all behind, as if I’ve returned to the embrace of my mother. Three years ago. there was a back door where I lived in Nanjing and each night when I opened the back door. I could enjoy a silent night. On the ground existed a vegetable garden and in the sky was the star-studded blue sky. Tiny as the stars in our naked eyes, they give us a sense that the light is all-pervading. In those days I was reading some books about astronomy and I could distinguish some stars, as if they had been my friends and often talked to me.