Advise you to drink a glass of wine more, and go out to Yangguan for no reason. -Wei Cheng Qu by Wang Wei
we open your window over garden and field, to talk mulberry and hemp with our cups in our hands. -Meng Haoran's
Passing the Old Man's Village we watch the green trees that circle your village, and the pale blue of outlying mountains. -Meng Haoran's
"Passing the Old Man's Village" Meet immediately without paper and pen, and report peace with your message. -Cen Can's on meeting a messenger to the capital
I shall think of you in a floating cloud, so in the sunset think of me. -Li Bai's "seeing friends off"
The white rabbit is tinkering with medicine and reviving in autumn. Who is Chang 'e living alone with? Now the people of the present are not seen in the ancient months, but in the present month they have taken the ancients. -Li Bai's "Asking about asking for the moon, an Old Friend Jia Chunling"
preparing me chicken and rice, old friend, you entertain me at your farm. -Meng Haoran's
Don't miss your old country and try new tea with new fire. -Su Shi's "Looking at the South of the Yangtze River, Transcendental Platform"
till you came to me last night in a dream, because I am always thinking of you. -Du Fu's "Two Dreams of Li Bai, Part One"
Under the west window, the wind shakes the bamboo, and it is suspected that it is an old friend. -Qin Guan's "Man Ting Fang Jing Qiu with Clear Water"
People can't climb the bright moon, but they follow people when they walk on the moon. -Li Bai's "Asking about asking for the moon, an Old Friend Jia Chunling"
and some day meet an old wood-cutter, and talk and laugh and never return. -Wang Wei's my retreat at mount zhongnan
When will there be a moon in the sky? I now stop the glass and ask. -Li Bai's "Asking about asking for the moon, an Old Friend Jia Chunling"
since we left one another, floating apart like clouds, ten years have run like water-till at last we join again. -Wei Yingwu's a greeting on the huai river to my old friends from liangchuan
I was banished for my blunders, by a wise ruler, I have been sick so long I see none of my friends. -Meng Haoran's "on returning at the year's end to zhongnan mountain"
I only hope that when the song is right, the moonlight shines in the golden bottle. -Li Bai's "Ask about the wine asking for the moon, an old friend Jia Chunling"
When you meet, you will drink it for the king, which is a high-rise horse. -Wang Wei's Four Poems of a Young Man
and we talk again and laugh again just as in earlier days, except that the hair on our heads is tinged now with grey. -Wei Yingwu's "a greeting on the huai river to my old friends from liangchuan"
If the ancients are running water today, * * * looks at the bright moon. -Li Bai's "Ask asking for the moon about the wine, an old friend Jia Chunling"
Meeting and getting drunk is the leading edge, where is the wind and rain? -Su Shi's "The Queqiao Fairy Send Chen Lingju on Tanabata"
we used to be companions on the Jiang and the Han, and as often as we met, we were likely to be tipsy. -Wei Yingwu's a greeting on the huai river to my old friends from liangchuan
Why not go home? There are autumn mountains in Huaishang. -Wei Yingwu's a greeting on the huai river to my old friends from liangchuan
and so I think of you, old friend, o troubler of my midnight dreams. -Meng Haoran's in Summer at the South Pavilion Thinking of Xin
after these ten torn wearisome years, we have met again. We were both so changed. -Li Yi's a brief but happy meeting with my brother-in-law "meeting by accident, only to part"
while the autumn moon is pouring full, on a thousand night-levels among towns and villages. -Dai Shulun's
Collection of Guest Nights and Old Friends
long divided by river and sea, for years we two have failed to meet. -Sikong Shu's "a farewell to han shen at the yunyang inn"
Jiao is as bright as a flying mirror, and the green smoke is extinguished. -Li Bai's "Ask about the wine asking for the moon, an old friend Jia Chunling"
Dongting has returned guests, and Xiaoxiang meets an old friend. -Liu Yun's "Jiangnan Qu"
I travel to Jincheng twice a year, and the former is worth the east wind and the latter is worth the autumn. -Luo Yin's "Wei Cheng Meets an Old Friend"
Whether the old friend will come or not tonight, let people make a perfect picture of the phoenix tree. -Lu Yan's Wutongying Sunset Oblique
in the trees a wind has startled the birds, exposed grass covered with cold flies. -Dai Shulun's
Collection of Guest Nights and Old Friends
but wayfarers at least have wine, and nothing to fear -- till the morning bell. -Dai Shulun's
. -Gao Shi's "Two Poems of Biedong Da"
How many times can you laugh in your life, and you must be drunk when you meet in a wine fight. -Cen Can's "Night Collection with Judges in Liangzhou Pavilion"
All kinds of grass and sentient beings hinder horses, and good clouds cover the building everywhere. -Luo Yin's Wei Cheng meets an old friend
how sweet the road-side flowers might be, if they did not mean good-bye, old friend. -Meng Haoran's "taking leave of wang wei"
It's too late to ask, and you are an old friend. -Wu Weiye's "Meeting an Old Friend"
An old friend stands on a high platform in the morning and evening. -Shu Shu's
Meet in the full moon, and it's more worth flying at night. -Wang Ji's Autumn Night Meets Wang Chu Shi
if only I knew, I might serve you in the temple, instead of these tears toward the far sky. -Zhang Ji's thinking of a friend lost in the tibetan war
But seeing the night coming from the sea, I'd rather know that it's gone to the clouds. -Li Bai's "Asking about asking for the moon, an Old Friend Jia Chunling"
fragrant grasses have changed and faded, while still I have been hoping that my old friend would come. -Wei Zhuang's "a night thought on terrace tower"
Ji Ting's bleak old friend is rare, where to climb and send back. -Wang Zhihuan's "Farewell on the 9th"
Old friends are invisible, and new knowledge is gained outside Wan Li. -Wen Tianxiang's "Dragon Boat Festival is the Event"
In order to cherish the old friend, I feel sorry for the horse. -Gao Shi's "Send Wei Ba"
Yulou is deeply locked in fickle species. -Qin Guan's
I don't know where we will meet again when peony comes next year. -Ye Qingchen's "He Shengchao, Stay Away"
Why don't the old friends return, and Chunhua should be late. -Liu Yun's "Jiangnan Qu"
It is difficult to answer the old feelings when you are old in your hometown. —— Huang Tingjian's "Dawn in Ezhu at midnight on December 19th ..."
I suddenly remembered my old friend and went to Liangzhou today. -Bai Juyi's
Today, because you try to look back, the light smoke trees are separated from Mianzhou. -Luo Yin's "Wei Cheng meets an old friend"
The mountain will not hate and break the heart, and the water will fall into the dream. -Luo Yin's "Wei Cheng Meets an Old Friend"
Love for an old friend is heavy, but traces of * * * youth are sparse. -Bai Juyi's Ode to the Old and Give Dreams
there meet by chance, south of the river, dreaming doubters of a dream. -Dai Shulun's
Collection of Guest Nights and Old Friends, suddenly remembering that old friends are always old today. -Wang Anshi's "A Fisherman's Pride, a Small Bridge on the Ping 'an"
An old friend should miss it, and the azaleas are dying on the branches. -Wen Tianxiang's
Saying goodbye to friends in the Moon on the River, who knows that wine on the river is still dumped with an old friend. -Zhou Zizhi's
An old friend in Chang 'an asked me, the way is unusual, and the mud wine is still there. -Xin Qiji's "Magnolia Slow Chuzhou Send Fan Wei"
Going to the north and coming to the south is a self-aging, so my old friends are rare. -He Zhu's "Fishing Boat Return, Green, Clean, Spring, Deep and Good Dyeing Clothes"