1. On the beautiful Surabaya coast, the boundless scenery is new. It is easy to recognize that in the east wind, there is always spring in a thousand colors. ——Zhu Xi's "Spring Day" of the Song Dynasty
Translation: The wind is beautiful and the sun is beautiful. Spring is on the shore of Surabaya, and the boundless scenery takes on a new look. Anyone can see the face of spring. The spring breeze blows flowers into bloom and becomes a riot of purple and red. Spring scenery is everywhere.
2. Good rain knows the season, and spring will happen. Sneaking into the night with the wind, moistening things silently. ——Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, "Happy Rain on a Spring Night"
Translation: Good rain knows the time of rain, which is when plants sprout and grow in spring. As the spring breeze falls quietly at night, it silently nourishes all things in spring.
3. The jasper is as high as a tree, with thousands of green silk ribbons hanging down. I don’t know who cuts out the thin leaves. The spring breeze in February is like scissors. ——"Ode to the Willow" by He Zhizhang of the Tang Dynasty
Translation: The tall willow trees are covered with new green leaves, and the light hanging wicker branches are like thousands of gently fluttering green ribbons. I don’t know who cut these thin willow leaves, but the spring breeze in February is like magic scissors.
4. There is no youth in the New Year, and we are surprised to see grass buds in early February. The white snow is too late for spring, so it flies through the trees in the garden. ——"Spring Snow" by Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty
Translation: Even in the New Year, there are still no fragrant flowers. It was only in early February that I was pleasantly surprised to find new shoots of grass sprouting. Bai Xue also thought that spring came too late, so she deliberately turned into flowers and flew among the trees in the courtyard.
5. The oriole sings thousands of miles away, reflecting the red green, and the wine flag winds in the water village, mountain and Guo. There are four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasty, and there are many towers in the mist. ——Du Mu, Tang Dynasty, "Jiangnan Spring"
Translation: The vast south of the Yangtze River is full of orioles and swallows dancing, green trees and red flowers complement each other, and wine flags are flying everywhere in the villages near the water and in the city walls at the foot of the mountains. Many ancient temples left over from the Southern Dynasties are now shrouded in mist.