Luo Zhifan is always like a cloud, and fine grass is like a butterfly skirt. -Huang Qingshen Tian's "Zhi Zhu Ci"
Newly-built fields are mud and flat, and every family cooks, and first frost is clear. -Song Fan Chengda's "Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous"
Exhausted workers dug and dug all day and dug out the soil in front of the house, but there was not a tile in their own house. A rich man lives in a tile-roofed building without touching mud. -Song Mei Yao Chen "Pottery"
From the north side of Gushan Temple to the west side of Jiating, the lake is just level with the embankment, with low clouds and waves on the lake. Several early orioles raced to the sunny tree, and their new swallows were carrying mud in their nests. -Tang Bai Juyi's Spring Tour in Qiantang
What is life like everywhere? It should be like flying in snow. I accidentally left my fingers and claws in the mud, and Hong Fei was driving that complicated thing. -Su Song Shi's "The Homesickness of Harmony between Mianchi and His Son"
A scholar is a scholar, but he doesn't understand books. If you have a dutiful son, you will not live with your father. Cold element is as naive as mud, and high soldiers are as timid as chickens. -Han Anonymous "Children's Rhyme Should Be Constant"
There is a sad well in Jingyang Palace, and the swearing-in period of Long Luan is endless. The water outside the Wu Palace is heartbroken, and the muddy mud is still buried with stones. -Don Li Shangyin's Jingyang Well
There is no mud in the mud. I am very happy to see the king. As strong as brothers, virtue is pure and long-lasting. -The Book of Songs, Xiaoguo
Fade, fade! Hu Bugui? If it's not for the king, why are you still showing it! Fade, fade! Hu Bugui? If it's not for the monarch, why are you still in the mud! -The Book of Songs Decline
Don't walk on reeds, cattle and sheep, square buds and cubes, and mud. Brothers, don't go far, or set a banquet, or give it a few. -The Book of Songs "Walking Reed"