1. Everything will go wrong if you go through the gate again. We came together and returned home differently. ——Song Dynasty: He Zhu's "Half-Dead Tong: Everything is wrong after crossing Changmen"
Interpretation: When I came to Suzhou again, I felt that everything was wrong. Why can’t my wife, who came with me, return with me?
2. Nostalgically chanting and listening to the flute poems in the air, and when you go to the countryside to read them, you will feel like a bad person. ——Tang Dynasty: Liu Yuxi's "Rewarding Lotte and Seeing Gifts at the First Banquet in Yangzhou"
Explanation: When I came back, things were different and people were different. I was like a bad person. I could only play the flute and compose poems, and I felt so melancholy.
3. The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. ——Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty, "Linjiang Immortal: The Rolling Water of the Yangtze River Passes East"
Interpretation: Only the green mountains still exist, and the sun still rises and sets.
4. Things are different and people are not the same. Everything stops. If you want to speak, tears will flow first. ——Song Dynasty: Li Qingzhao's "Wuling Spring·Spring Festival Gala"
Interpretation: Spring goes and summer comes, flowers bloom and fade, as it has always been, only sad people and heartbreaking things make me sad. Thinking of this, I burst into tears before I even opened my mouth.
5. The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year. ——Liu Xiyi of the Tang Dynasty, "The Sad White-headed Man"
Interpretation: The flowers remain the same year after year, but the people who look at the flowers are different year after year.
6. Where are the people who came to look at the moon together? The scenery looks vaguely like last year. ——Zhao Gu of the Tang Dynasty, "Jianglou's Old Feelings/Jianglou's Old Feelings"
Interpretation: I still remember that we came together to look at the moon, but now where are you staying with us? You must know that the scenery where the river and tower meet the water and light is as beautiful and gentle as what we saw last year.
7. If you don’t see me, the bright mirror in the high hall has sad white hair, and it looks like blue silk in the morning and turns to snow in the evening. ——Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, "About to Enter the Wine"
Interpretation: Can't you see the old parents lamenting in front of the mirror about their white hair? In the morning, they are still full of black hair, but how come they are all gone in the evening? It turned into a piece of snow.
8. Suddenly a spring breeze comes overnight, and thousands of pear trees bloom. ——Cen Shen of the Tang Dynasty, "Baixuege Sends Magistrate Wu Back to the Capital"
Interpretation: Suddenly, it was like a spring breeze blowing overnight, and it seemed that thousands of pear trees were in full bloom.
9. Thousands of sails pass by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of trees spring in front of the diseased tree. ——Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty, "Rewarding Lotte at the First Banquet in Yangzhou"
Interpretation: By the side of the sunken boat, thousands of sails are competing; in front of the diseased tree, thousands of trees are in spring.
10. People in the past have gone by Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is vacant here. ——Cui Hao of the Tang Dynasty, "Yellow Crane Tower/Climbing the Yellow Crane Tower"
Interpretation: The immortals of the past have flown away on the Yellow Crane, leaving only the empty Yellow Crane Tower here.