1. If you don’t see the grass by the river, it dies in winter and fills the road in spring. ——Vernacular translation of Song Baozhao's "It's Difficult to Travel on the Road Five": Look at the grass by the river. It dies in winter and grows over the road in spring.
2. The grass grows in Liliyuan, and it dries up and flourishes every year. Wildfires never burn out, but spring breezes blow them again. ——Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty, "Farewell to Fude Ancient Grass" vernacular translation: The grass on the wilderness is luxuriant, and it will flourish again once a year. No matter how mercilessly the fire burns. As long as the spring breeze blows the next year, there will be green weeds everywhere again.
3. The ice pin spring pulses, and the grass sprouts after the snow. ——Tang Bai Juyi's "Wandering Alone in Qujiang in Early Spring" vernacular translation: The ice melts, the clear springs surge, the snow melts, and the young grass sprouts.
4. The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city has deep vegetation in spring. ——Du Fu's "Spring Hope" of the Tang Dynasty Vernacular translation: Chang'an fell, the country was shattered, only the mountains and rivers remained; spring has come, and the sparsely populated Chang'an city is lush with vegetation.
5. The strong wind knows the strong grass, and the rough wind knows the honest minister. ——Vernacular translation of "Ode to Xiao Yu" by Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty: Only through the strong wind can you know which grass is the most abundant, and only through the turbulent world can you know who is the loyal minister.