Source: Peony Ode
Song: Chen
It has been ten years since the rulers trampled on the land of the motherland. Looking back at Luoyang, my hometown, the road is so long.
Years have made me old. Today, I am alone, wandering on the green pier by the spring breeze stream and enjoying the blooming peony.
Translation of Peony Pavilion
Ten years later, looking back at my hometown Luoyang, I still have a long way to go.
As an old man in a foreign land, when he saw the peony blooming by the Qingdun River, he thought of the peony in Luoyang. He could only stand alone in the spring breeze and watch silently.