The poems about spring outing include: "Quequatrains", "Answering Common People's Questions in the Mountains", "Early Spring in the East of the City", "Spring in the South of the Yangtze River", and "Inscribed on the Nanzhuang of the Capital City".
1. "Quequatrains"
Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty
The rivers and mountains are beautiful in Chiri, and the spring breeze is fragrant with flowers and grass.
Swallows fly when the mud melts, and mandarin ducks sleep in the warm sand.
Translation: The mountains and rivers are bathed in the spring light, so beautiful, and the spring breeze brings the fragrance of flowers and plants. Swallows were busy building nests with wet mud in their mouths, and pairs of mandarin ducks slept on the warm sand.
2. "Answering Common People's Questions in the Mountains"
Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty
Asking me what I mean about the beautiful mountains, I smile without answering and feel free.
The peach blossoms and flowing water disappear, and there is no other world than this world.
Translation: Someone asked me why I live in seclusion in Bishan. I smiled and didn't answer, feeling at ease. The peach blossoms are in full bloom and the flowing water disappears into the distance. There is a different world here, how can it be the human world.
3. "Early Spring in the East of the City"
Yang Juyuan of the Tang Dynasty
The poet's clear scene is in the New Year, and the green willows are only half yellow.
If you stay in the forest and the flowers are blooming, you will be the one looking at the flowers when you go out.
Translation: The fresh scenery in early spring is the poet's favorite. The young leaves on the green willow branches have just sprouted, but the color of goose yellow is not yet uniform. If the flowers bloom in the capital, the city will be filled with people admiring the flowers.
4. "Jiangnan Spring"
Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty
Thousands of miles away, the orioles sing green and reflect red, and the wind of wine flags in water villages and mountains.
There are four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties, and many towers are in the mist.
Translation: The sounds of birds chirping in the south of the Yangtze River are complemented by green grass and red flowers, and wine flags are fluttering everywhere in the villages near the water and in the city walls at the foot of the mountains. There are more than 480 ancient temples and countless towers left over from the Southern Dynasties, all shrouded in wind, smoke, clouds and rain.
5. "Inscription on Nanzhuang of the Capital City"
Cui Hu of the Tang Dynasty
On this day last year, in this gate, the faces of the people and the peach blossoms reflected each other's red.
I don’t know where the human face is, but the peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze.
Translation: On this day last year, at the door of this house in Nanzhuang, Chang'an, your beautiful face, girl, complemented the blooming peach blossoms, making it look particularly crimson. Today, a year later, I revisit my old place. Girl, your beautiful figure has gone nowhere. Only the peach blossoms on the trees are still smiling in the warm spring breeze.