1, bid farewell to Dong
Song Dynasty: Su Shi
I am full of life, I am full of poems and books. Tired of cooking leaves with old Confucianism, it is better to step on Sophora japonica with children.
If it's empty, you can't find a spring horse or see a car. Proud of the secular, Sun Wong wet words such as crow.
Translation:
In life, the body is wrapped in coarse cloth, and the temperament learned in the chest is naturally radiant. I don't like chatting with the old Confucian about the bitter days of "cooking leaves", so I decided to take the imperial examination with the scholars.
If you don't have money in your pocket, you won't buy a "painted face" horse, but you will look at the dazzling "choosing a husband's car". I can also boast to secular people in the exam, and my name is written in crow black on the imperial edict.
2. Send an Andun scholar to the Western Heaven.
Song Dynasty: Su Shi
I never get tired of reading old books, but I don't know myself until I read them carefully. He was afraid of being an official in his later years, but now he is late.
I used to live in a shabby house and stopped reading "Garden Sunflowers" when I wrote a book. I'm here to admire people in the East Palace and abandon my old studies to play.
The crazy plan didn't succeed, but the frost temple arrived as scheduled. So pines and cypresses are all planted by hand. When will they return to the archway?
If I knew everything, I would have a life, but ten years later, I lost my mind in Ningfei. You can't compete with your gains and losses, you can only do business for a long time.
Translation:
Read old books over and over again, and you will naturally understand the meaning after reading them. You will definitely become a prestigious official in the future. I don't mind wandering and frustrated today.
I once cut off all social activities at home and wrote a book, so that I didn't even have time to look at the flowers and plants in the yard. After leaving home, I traveled east to seek an official position, abandoned my old studies and fooling around with my children.
There are many calculations, but everything is empty. Up to now, only the white hair on my head has arrived as scheduled. When I think of the pine and cypress planted in my hometown, I'm afraid I'll have to put my hands together when I return home.
If everything has long been known to be destiny takes a hand, then my wandering behavior in the past ten years is not extremely ignorant. Now I tell you never to care about temporary gains and losses, and I feel deeply sorry to tell you this at this parting moment.