Original text
The spring breeze lives up to Dongjun’s trust and destroys all the flowers. Swallows in pairs. Still holding mud into the apricot beam. ?
Note: A cup of flower wine. Take advantage of time. Don't talk in a hurry. In the dream, I feel heartbroken.
Translation
Picking mulberry seeds
The spring breeze lives up to Dongjun’s trust and destroys all the flowers. Swallows in pairs. Still holding mud into the apricot beam.
Note: A cup of flower wine. Take advantage of time. Don't talk in a hurry. In the dream, I feel heartbroken.
I can only give you a general idea: the spring breeze lived up to the promise and arrived as scheduled, blowing the flowers all over the ground. The swallows came in pairs and built their nests on the apricot trees with mud in their mouths as usual. Sit in front of the flowers, drink a glass of wine, and time slips away in silence. Don't say that time flies by, like waking up from a dream and finding that your life has passed, you are suddenly filled with sadness.
Yan Shu (991-1055), named Tongshu, was from Linchuan, Fuzhou. Famous writer and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Born in the second year of Chunhua, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty (991), he entered the examination as a child prodigy at the age of fourteen. He was granted a Jinshi background and was ordered to be Secretary Sheng Zhengzi. From the official position to the right, he admonished the officials, was a bachelor of Jixian Palace, and a fellow scholar. Pingzhangshi was also the privy envoy, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and the scholar of Guanwendian knew Yongxingjun and the Minister of the Ministry of War. He died of illness in Beijing in 1055 and was granted the title of Duke of Linzi. His posthumous title was Yuanxian, and he was known as Yan Yuanxian in the world. Yan Shu is famous in the literary world for his poetry, and is especially good at Xiao Ling. His style is subtle and graceful. Together with his son Yan Jidao, he is known as "Dayan" and "Xiaoyan", and together with Ouyang Xiu, he is also known as "Yan Ou". He is also good at poetry and prose. The collection has been lost. There are surviving fragments of "Zhu Yu Ci", "Yan Yuan Xian's Posthumous Documents" and "Lei Yao".