All the poems in the second volume of the fifth grade Chinese textbook are as follows:
1. Quatrains
Author: Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty
Chi The mountains are beautiful, the spring breeze is fragrant, and the flowers and plants are fragrant.
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 are busy building nests with wet mud in their mouths, and pairs of mandarin ducks are sleeping on the warm sand.
2. Evening Scene on the Spring River in Huichong
Author: Su Shi, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty
Three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo are a prophet of the warmth of the spring river.
The ground is full of wormwood and reed buds, which is when the puffer fish is about to come.
Translation:
Two or three peach blossoms are blooming outside the bamboo forest. Ducks are playing in the water. They are the first to notice the warming of the river in early spring. The river beach is already full of mugwort, and the reeds are beginning to sprout, and the pufferfish are about to swim upstream from the sea to the river.
3. Three Qu Daozhong
Author: Zeng Ji, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty
The plums are yellow, the sun is clear, the creek is overflowing, and the mountains are running.
The green shade does not slow down the road ahead, adding four or five oriole calls.
Translation:
When the plums are yellow and the weather is sunny every day, I take a boat and walk along the stream until I reach the end of the stream, and then change Continue on the mountain path. The green trees on the mountain road are as dense as when we came here, and there are a few happy calls of oriole in the deep forest, which makes it more interesting than when we came here.
4. Recalling Jiangnan
Author: Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty
Jiangnan is good, and the scenery is familiar to me;
The sun rises and the flowers are red Victory over fire, the river is as green as blue in spring.
Can we not remember Jiangnan?
Victory over bluegrass. How can one not miss Jiangnan?
5. Qingming Festival
Author: Du Mu, a writer of the Tang Dynasty
It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die.
May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance.
Translation:
The drizzle falls one after another during the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, and all the travelers on the road are in despair.
May I ask the locals where to buy wine to drown their sorrows? The shepherd boy smiled and pointed to Xinghua Mountain Village in the distance.