Author Cao Zhi "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Wei
Translation comparison
Boiled beans are used as soup and fermented into juice.
Honey burns under the pot, and beans cry in the pot.
We are born from the same root. What's the hurry?
Translation annotation
Boil the beans in a pot, filter out the residue of the beans, and leave the bean juice as soup.
The beanstalk burns under the pot, and the beans cry in the pot.
Beans and beanstalks originally grew on the same root. How can beanstalk torture beans in such a hurry?