What are the reasons for Su Shi and Zhang Huaimin enjoying the moon in the atrium?

According to the writing background, Su Shi was demoted. What they should say is not to mention those troubles, to enjoy the moon and drink together and do nothing.

original text

Genpox, on the night of October 12, 2006, took off his clothes and went to bed. He just saw the moonlight on the door and got up happily for a walk. Thinking that there was no one to play with, I went to the Tianhou Palace to find Zhang Huaimin. People didn't sleep, so we walked in the yard together. In the moonlight, the courtyard is full of clear water, as clear as clear water. The algae and shepherd's purse in the water are the shadows of bamboo and cypress. What night is there no moonlight? Where is there no bamboo and cypress? It's just the lack of free people like us.

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On the evening of 20061October 12, I was undressing and getting ready for bed. I accidentally saw the moonlight coming in from the portal, which made me interested in night travel, so I got up and went out happily. Thinking that no one was playing, I went to Chengtian Temple to find Zhang Huaimin. Zhang Huaimin didn't sleep either, so we walked in the yard together. The moonlight in the yard is as clear and transparent as water. Seaweed and aquatic plants crisscross, which turned out to be the shadows of bamboo and pine and cypress branches in the yard. When is there no moon? Where is there no bamboo and cypress? It's just the lack of idle people like us.

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Creation background

This article was written in Song Shenzong Yuanfeng for six years (1083), and the author has been demoted to Huangzhou for four years. In July of the second year of Yuanfeng, the famous "Wutai Poetry Case" in history, Li Ding picked out Su Shi's poems about the new law and said that he slandered them. In August, he was arrested and imprisoned. After a long trial and torture, he was almost killed. 1February, the author was released from prison and demoted to Huangzhou to be an assistant forever, but he was not allowed to "sign books to do business", that is to say, he was an idle official with positions but no rights. In this case, the author is almost exiled and depressed; However, he is still enterprising, so he wrote this essay.