Name of the work: Five Drunken Books of Wang Hu Building on June 27th.
Year of Creation: Northern Song Dynasty
Author: Su Shi
Source: Complete Works of Su Dongpo
Lyrics:
Clouds poured out and poured down like ink, but a mountain range was exposed on the horizon, bright and fresh, and the splashing water was like white pearl gravel, splashing on the boat.
Suddenly, the wind rolled up and dispersed the clouds in the sky. The lake was blue as a mirror, beautiful and gentle.
Translation:
Dark clouds roll, like overturned inkstones, winding the distant mountains. After a while, some pearls suddenly appeared on my boat, which were oppressive raindrops.
A gust of wind blew and dispersed the rainstorm. When I fled to Wang Hu Building, drinking and chatting, what I saw was blue sky and clear water.
Extended data:
Five Drunken Books of Wang Hulou on June 27th is a set of poems written by Su Shi, a writer and calligrapher in Song Dynasty, when he was exiled to Hangzhou. The authors of these five poems visited the West Lake in Hangzhou, described what they saw and heard while cruising in the lake by boat, and showed the wonderful scenery of the West Lake in Hangzhou.
Creative background:
Song Shenzong Xining five years (1072), the author served as a judge in Hangzhou. On June 27th this year, I visited the West Lake, saw the wonderful lakes and mountains on the boat, and then went upstairs to Wang Hu to drink and wrote these five quatrains.