Source: "Nine Songs of Shan Gui" Qu Yuan in Pre-Qin Dynasty
Excerpt:
Stay in practice and forget to return, and give it to me when you are old; Take "Three Shows in the Mountain" as an example, Shi Lei Schiller Gorman;
Complaining that my son forgot to return it, you think I can't be idle; People in the mountains are fragrant with Du Ruoxiang and drink pine and cypress in Yanquan;
You think I am suspicious;
Thunder fills the rain, apes sing at night; The wind is rustling and the wood is rustling. I miss my son and I am worried.
Translation:
Who will watch when you don't want to go back? Collect Ganoderma lucidum, Xiancao, rugged rocks and kudzu vine in Wushan. I hate it when you stand me up. I don't want to go back, knowing that you miss me too, but I don't have time. People in the mountains are as innocent as Du Ruo, sipping stone springs and standing under the pines and cypresses.
You said you missed me. Who knows if it's true or not? Thunder and drizzle are falling, and the crying of apes breaks people's intestines at night. After the autumn wind rustled, the yellow leaves fell, but I was infatuated with my son and only one person was sad.
Extended data value-added:
Nine Songs is the most charming poem in Qu Yuan's works, which represents the highest achievement of Qu Yuan's artistic creation. It takes the merits and heroic achievements of Chu ancestors as poems; Poetry takes mountains and rivers, gods and natural scenery as its theme; Taking fairy tales and historical legends as poems, it vividly expresses the poet's sad mood when he exiled Nan Chu and Yuan Zhen in his later years, being loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and worrying about the country and the people.
Nine Songs is a sacrificial song for the purpose of entertaining the gods. On the surface, its artistic image is a supernatural god, but in essence it deifies people in reality. In the description of characters' feelings and environmental atmosphere, it is vivid and beautiful, solemn and elegant, and full of strong life breath.