1. When can we share a bottle of wine and discuss our poems in detail - Du Fu's "Recalling Li Bai in Spring"
Translation: When can we drink at the same table and discuss our poems in detail again? Woolen cloth?
2. Give me papaya and give me Qiongju in return. ——"The Book of Songs? Wei Feng? Papaya"
Translation: He gave me papaya, and I gave him the jade.
3. Making friends depends on acquaintance, why should flesh and blood be intimate? ——Han Yuefu folk song "Honghou Ballad"
Translation: Close friends are closer than flesh and blood relatives.
4. My husband has ambitions all over the world, and he is still close to his neighbors thousands of miles away. ——Cao Zhi's "Giving the White Horse to Wang Biao"
Translation: A man's ambition is to be at home all over the world, even though he is thousands of miles apart, he is like a neighbor.
5. There are close friends in the four seas, and they are as close to each other as far away as the world - Wang Bo's "Sending Du Shaofu to Shuzhou"
Translation: There are close friends in the four seas, even if they are far away, It also seems to be close at hand.
6. We know each other no matter how far we are, but we are still neighbors thousands of miles away. ——Zhang Jiuling's "Farewell to Li Shaofu in Weicheng"
Translation: As long as we know each other, no matter how far or near we are, even if we are thousands of miles apart, we will feel like we are neighbors.
7. We are both fallen people at the end of the world, so why should we have known each other before. ——Bai Juyi's "Pipa Play"
Translation: We are all people who have encountered misfortune. Now that we meet here, why care about whether we have known each other before.
8. Friendships in life end at the end, don’t be separated by ups and downs. ——Helan Jinming's "Five Poems on a Difficult Journey"
Translation: The friends a person makes throughout his life must always be the same, and never part ways for the sake of self-promotion or relegation in the middle.
9. There are no young or old people in a life-long friendship, so why should we first agree with each other when talking about friendship? ——Du Fu's "Returning on Foot"
Translation: When communicating with friends, you don't have to care about differences in status, age, etc. The important thing is that friends can communicate with each other.
10. A friend likes to be calm when painting, but like a mountain like a paper, he does not like to be flat. ——Weng Zhao, "Looking for Mountains with Friends"
Translation: Friendship should pursue simplicity like painting, while writing articles should pursue some ups and downs like mountains.