How can I repay Ying Qiongyao when a beauty gave me a golden sword?
Translation: A beauty gave me a golden knife, what should I do in return?
Source: "Poems of Four Sorrows" - Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty
The white horse is decorated with golden restraints, galloping northwest.
The translator rode the white horse toward the northwest, wearing a golden harness.
Source: "The White Horse" - Cao Zhi of the Wei and Jin Dynasties
The luminous cup of grape wine reminds you to drink pipa immediately.
At the wine feast, the mellow grape wine was filled into exquisite luminous cups,
The singers played the quick and cheerful pipa to encourage drinking
Source: "Two Poems from Liangzhou" - Wang Han of the Tang Dynasty
Relatives and friends in Luoyang ask each other like a heart filled with ice in a jade pot. ?
Translation Friends, if my relatives and friends in Luoyang ask about me, just say that I am still a jade pot with a heart of ice and stick to my faith!
Source: "Farewell to Xin Jian in the Furong Tower" - Wang Changling of the Tang Dynasty
Have a beautiful feast, sit on the flowers, fly into the wine cup and be drunk by the moon.
A banquet was held to sit and enjoy the famous flowers, quickly passing the wine glasses and getting drunk in the moonlight.
Without good poetry, how can one express elegant feelings?
Source: "Preface to the Spring Night Banquet in the Peach and Plum Garden" - Tang Dynasty·Li Bai
Why don't men bring Wu hooks and collect the fifty states in Guanshan?
Translation: Why don’t the great men carry weapons and go to capture the fifty states in Guanshan?
Source: "Thirteen Poems of Nanyuan" - Tang Dynasty·Li He
The moon in the sea has tears, and the warm sun in Lantian produces smoke.
Translation: The bright moon shines high in the sea, and the tears of the sharks turn into beads. The red sun is warm in Lantian, and you can see the smoke coming from Liangyu. Source: "Jin Se" - Tang Dynasty·Li Shangyin
A beautiful woman gave me a mink and a sable, so why should I repay it with a bright moon pearl?
Translation: The beauty gave me a mink. What can I do in return? I have moon beads.
Source: "Poems of Four Sorrows" - Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty
The wind and dew of nine autumns bloom over the kilns, capturing the green color of thousands of peaks.
Translation: The color of celadon glaze is as crystal clear as autumn dew, and its color is as clear as green drops from thousands of peaks.
Source: "Secret Colored Yueqi" - Tang Dynasty·Lu Guimeng