1. After passing the imperial examination
Tang Dynasty: Meng Jiao
In the past, it is not enough to boast about being sordid, but now there is no limit to the dissolute thoughts. ?
The spring breeze brings joy to the horse's hoofs, and I can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day.
Translation
The difficulties in life and the embarrassment in thinking in the past are no longer worth mentioning. Now that I have been named on the gold list, the depressed mood has been blown away like the wind, and I really have something to say in my heart. It’s endlessly fun, I really want to embrace this nature. Riding a horse on the Chang'an Road where the spring flowers are blooming, the horse's hooves are particularly light today. Unknowingly, I have already seen the prosperous flowers of Chang'an.
2. Watching hunting
Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei
The wind is strong and the horns are sounding, and the general is hunting in Weicheng.
The grass is dry and the hawk's eyes are weak, and the snow is gone and the horse's hooves are light.
Translation
Translation
In the sound of strong wind and the sound of horns and bows, the general hunts on the outskirts of Weicheng. The autumn grass is withered and yellow, and the eagle's eyes are sharper; the ice and snow melt, and the horse's hooves are especially brisk.
3. Make it immediately
Ming Dynasty: Qi Jiguang
He drove north and south to report his love, and the rivers and lace grass laughed all his life.
On the three hundred and sixty days of the year, most of them are on the march.
Translation
I traveled to the battlefields and fought in the north and south in order to repay the emperor's trust in me. The flowers and plants along the north and south rivers and at the northern border all laughed at my busy life. I spent the three hundred and sixty days of the year on the battlefield carrying weapons and riding a war horse.
4. Six of the Nine Poems of Going Out of the Fortress
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
When you draw a bow, you should use it to draw strength, and when you use arrows, you should use long arrows. To shoot a man, shoot a horse first; to capture a thief, capture the king first.
There is a limit to killing people, and all countries have their own borders. If you can control the invasion of the mausoleum, how can you kill more people?
Translation
When you draw a bow, you must draw the hardest one, and when shooting an arrow, you must shoot the longest one. To shoot a man, you must first shoot a horse; to capture a thief, you must first capture their leader. There must be limits on killing, and every country has its borders. As long as we can stop the enemy's invasion, is it just to kill more people?
5. Two poems about leaving the fortress
Tang Dynasty: Wang Changling
The bright moon of the Qin Dynasty and the Pass of the Han Dynasty, the people who marched thousands of miles have not yet returned.
But the flying generals of Dragon City are here, and Huma is not taught to cross the Yin Mountains.
The horse is newly riding on a white jade saddle, and the moon is cold on the battlefield after the battle.
The sound of iron drums at the top of the city is still vibrating, and the blood of the golden sword in the box is still wet.
Translation
It is still the bright moon and border gates of the Qin and Han Dynasties, guarding the border and fighting fiercely against the enemy, and the people who were recruited for thousands of miles have not returned. If Wei Qing and the flying general Li Guang who attacked Dragon City were still alive today, they would never allow the Xiongnu to go south and herd horses across the Yin Mountains. The general had just mounted his BMW with a white jade saddle and went into battle. After the battle, only the desolate moonlight remained on the battlefield. The war drums on the city head were still vibrating and echoing in the wilderness, and the blood on the sword in the general's knife case was still wet.