Meaning: spread out a small piece of paper and write cursorily and diagonally, each word in order. Boil water, make tea, skim froth carefully in front of the window on a sunny day, and try to taste famous tea.
The first spring rain in Lin'an
Lu You
The world is as thin as gauze in recent years, who makes people ride horses in Beijing?
Listen to the spring rain in the small building all night, and sell apricot flowers in the deep alley in the Ming Dynasty.
The short paper is laid slantingly, making grass, and the fine breasts of the clear window are used to share tea.
Don’t sigh in plain clothes because of the wind and dust, you will still be home at the Qingming Festival.
Words and Sentences
⑴霁(jì): It turns sunny after rain or snow.
⑵ Taste of the world: taste of the world; social feelings.
⑶客: Guest residence.
⑷Jinghua: The reputation of the capital. Because the capital city is a place where cultural relics and talents gather, it is so called.
⑸Shen Lane: A very long lane.
⑹ Ming Dynasty (zhāo): tomorrow morning.
⑺ Short paper: short paper, small paper.
⑻ Oblique row: inclined row.
⑼Cao: refers to cursive writing.
⑽Sunny window: a bright window.
⑾Fine milk: Small white foam appears on the water surface when the tea is drunk.
⑿ Tea-making: The method of frying tea during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. After pouring the soup, stir the tea milk with chopsticks to make the soup ripple into various shapes.
⒀Suyi: Originally refers to white clothes, here it is used as a pronoun. It is the poet's humble name for himself (similar to "scholar").
⒁ Fengchen sigh: Sigh because of the wind and dust. It implies that there is no need to worry about the bad atmosphere in the capital contaminating one's own quality.
Vernacular translation
In recent years, the interest in being an official has been as light as a thin veil. Who asked me to ride a horse to Kyoto as a guest and be tainted by the prosperity? Living in a small building, I listened to the patter of spring rain all night long. In the early morning, I heard people hawking apricot blossoms deep in the alley. I spread out a small piece of paper and scribbled it calmly and slopingly, each word in order. On a sunny day, I carefully boiled water, made tea, skimmed foam, and tried to taste famous tea in front of the window. Oh, don't sigh that the dust in Kyoto will stain your white clothes. During the Qingming Festival, you still have time to return to your hometown in Sanin by Jinghu Lake.
Lu You's poem "The First Spring Rain in Lin'an" was written in the thirteenth year of Chunxi (1186). At this time, he was sixty-two years old and had been idle for five years in his hometown of Shanyin (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). . The high-spiritedness of the poet's youth and the frivolity of his youth have gone forever with the passage of time. Although his ambition to regain the Central Plains has not diminished, he has become increasingly aware of the weakness and darkness of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the spring of this year, Lu You was appointed as the prefect of Yanzhou. Before taking up his post, he first went to Lin'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) to meet the emperor. He stayed in an inn by the West Lake and waited for the summons. In boredom, he wrote this popular poem. A recited masterpiece.
Since Xiaozong summoned Lu You in the fifth year of Chunxi, he has not been reused. He only served two terms in Fujian and Jiangxi to promote Changping Tea and Salt. After five years at home, he stayed away from politics, but He has a deeper understanding of the strife and changes in the political arena and the harshness of the world. Therefore, an ingenious metaphor is used at the beginning of the poem, lamenting that the world and human relationships are as thin as translucent gauze.
Since the world is so weak, why bother to become an official? So the next sentence says: Why did you ride to the capital and live this lonely and boring life?