The ancient poems that describe the passing of time are as follows:
1. White hair urges old age, and green sun urges the end of the year. ——Meng Haoran, "Returning to Nanshan at the End of the Year"
Translation: The gray hair is gradually increasing, urging people to grow old slowly. The end of the year has arrived and the New Year is about to arrive.
2. Be encouraged in time, time waits for no one. ——Jin Tao Yuanming's "Miscellaneous Poems"
Translation: You should encourage yourself to work hard when you are young and strong. Time passes by and does not wait for others.
3. There is no choice but the flowers fall away, and the familiar swallows return. ——Yan Shu's "Huanxi Sand"
Translation: I can't do anything about the flowers falling, and the returning swallows seem familiar.
4. There are only gray hairs in the fair world, but no hair is spared on the heads of noble people. ——Du Mu's "Send the Hermit a Gift"
Translation: It is difficult for people of high status to avoid the passage of time when gray hair grows on their heads in old age.
5. This spring has passed, and when will it be the return year?
——Du Fu's "Two Quatrains"
Translation: This spring is about to pass, what year and month will be the date for my return home?