Ancient poems describing time

1. There are no ancient people in front of me, and there are no new ones in the future. Thinking of the long journey of heaven and earth, I shed tears with sadness. ——Chen Zi'ang's "Song of Dengyouzhou"

2. Be encouraged in time, time waits for no one. ——Tao Yuanming's "Miscellaneous Poems"

3. The shadows of the idle cloud pond are long, how many autumns have things changed and the stars have moved? Where is the emperor's son in the pavilion now? Outside the threshold, the Yangtze River flows freely. ——Wang Bo's "Poems of Prince Teng's Pavilion"

4. The prime years will never come again, and the morning will never come again. ——Tao Yuanming's "Miscellaneous Poems"

5. What in the world can make people grow old? It's half the sound of a chicken and half a horse's hooves. ——Wang Jiuling's "Title on the Hotel"

6. It is easy for people to be thrown away by the flowing light. The cherries are red and the bananas are green. ——Jiang Jie's "A Cut of Plum Blossoms"

7. Flowers bloom again and no one is young anymore. ——Dou E's Injustice "Dou E's Injustice"

8. There are only white hairs in the fair world, but no mercy is spared on the heads of noble people. ——Du Mu's "A Farewell to the Hermit"

9. The lights are on at three o'clock and the chickens are on at five o'clock, which is when men are studying. Black-haired people don't know how to study hard early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing's "Encouragement to Learn"

10. Thirty years of fame and fame are dust and dirt, and eight thousand miles of clouds and moon. Don't wait any longer. The young man's head will turn gray, and he will be filled with sorrow. ——Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong"

11. A hundred years will make a hundred more years, and you must love today. ——Wang Shizhen

12. The flowers fell helplessly, and the familiar swallows returned. ——Yan Shu's "Huanxi Sand"

13. The sunny season is wasted again, and the twilight time will be like that again. There are few spring days in one year, and there are many old days in a hundred years. ——Bai Juyi's "Spring Festival Gala Presented to Huangfu Langzhi"

14. Yesterday, yesterday, how good yesterday was! Yesterday has passed, today is just regretful. People in the world only know that they regret yesterday, but they don’t realize that today has passed. The water flows day by day, and the flowers fade day by day. Success and success are established today. Don’t regret the present tomorrow. ——Wen Jia's "Song of Yesterday"

15. Today is the same as today, how little today is! If you don’t do it today, when will this happen? It is a pity that today is not the day of a hundred years of life! If Yangu waits for the arrival of the Ming Dynasty, there will be Ming Dynasty affairs in the Ming Dynasty. I will compose today's poem for you. Please start working hard today. ——Wen Jia's "Today's Poems"

16. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. ——Anonymous

17. If young people don’t work hard, old people will be sad. ——Ancient Chinese Yuefu poem "Long Song Xing"

18. White hair makes you grow old, and green hair makes you die every year. ——Meng Haoran's "Returning to Nanshan at the End of the Year"

19. I advise you not to cherish your gold-threaded clothes, but to cherish your youth. If there are flowers, you must break them off. Don’t wait until there are no flowers. ——Anonymous "Golden Threaded Clothes"

20. Getting older is amazingly fast. Although her hair has changed her mind, she still hasn't changed her mind. Try the golden wine and listen to the old music again, it's still like the sound she made when she was drunk.

——Ouyang Xiu "Picking Mulberries"