Verses with a chic attitude and an open-minded and tranquil mood:
1. While I am still young, let me go and be wild. In a hundred years, the Ping Cult was awakened, with 36,000 events.
——"Man Ting Fang" by Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Translation: Take advantage of your idleness while you are still young, put aside your restraints, indulge yourself, and be at ease. Even if I only have a hundred years, I would still like to enjoy it thirty-six thousand times! A personal favorite.
2. Returning lazily from the Jade Tower and Golden Tower, Luoyang is intoxicated by placing plum blossoms.
——"Partridge Sky·Xidu Zu" by Zhu Dunru in the Song Dynasty.
Translation: Even if I am an official in a gorgeous palace, I am too lazy to go back. I might as well get drunk on the streets of Luoyang with plum blossoms in my hair.
3. Autumn is over in the world, and the wine glass is kept all day long.
——"From Xuancheng to Beijing" by Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty.
Translation: I have been wandering the rivers and lakes for more than ten years in a free and unrestrained way, and there is not a day when I don't linger in front of the wine glass.
4. My heart is free and clear.
——"Qingxi" by Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty.
Translation: My heart has always been leisurely, as calm and peaceful as a clear stream.
5. When will you go back and be a leisurely person? To a piece of harp, a pot of wine, and a stream of clouds.
——"Xing Xiangzi" by Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Translation: I don’t know when I can go back to the countryside and not worry about state affairs. I can play the piano, drink wine, and enjoy the mountains and rivers. This is enough.