Lin' an in the early spring
Lu you
For years, the taste of this world was as thin as gauze. Who will be the rider in Beijing?
Living in a small building and listening to the falling spring rain, you will hear the sound of selling apricots in the depths of the alley early in the morning.
Slowly spread out small pieces of paper sideways, every word is organized, carefully boil water and tea under the sun window, skim it and try to taste famous tea.
Oh, don't sigh that the dust in Kyoto will stain the white clothes, and there is still time to return to the mirror house in Lake Ubak.
Sentence annotation
(1): It will clear up after rain or snow.
(2) World taste: the taste of the world; Social feelings.
(3) guest: guest.
⑷ Jinghua: the laudatory name of Beijing. Because Beijing is a place where cultural relics and talents gather, it is called.
5] Deep roadway: very long roadway.
[6] Ming Dynasty (zhāo): Tomorrow morning.
(7) Short paper: short paper and small paper.
8 diagonal line: a diagonal line.
(9) Grass: refers to cursive script.
⑽ Clear windows: bright windows.
⑾ Fine milk: small white foam on the water when pouring tea.
⑿ Divide tea: the method of frying tea in Song and Yuan Dynasties. After filling the soup, stir the tea milk with bamboo sticks to make the soup ripple into various shapes.
[13] Plain clothes: originally refers to white clothes, and it is used as a synonym here. It is a poet's humble title to himself (similar to "Su Shi").
[14] Dust sigh: sigh because of dust. Suggest that you don't have to worry that the bad atmosphere in Beijing will pollute your quality.
Vernacular translation
In recent years, the interest of officials is as light as a veil. Who let me ride a horse to Kyoto to pollute the bustling? Living in a small building and listening to the spring rain all night, I will hear apricot blossoms in the depths of the alley in the morning. Spread out a small piece of paper and write leisurely and diagonally. The words are very organized. Carefully boil water, make tea, skim the foam and try to taste famous tea in front of a sunny window. Oh, don't sigh that the dust in Kyoto will stain the white clothes. There is still time to go back to my hometown in the mountains by the Mirror Lake during the Qingming Festival.
Lu You's poem "Spring Rain in Lin 'an" was written in the thirteenth year (1 186). At this time, he was 62 years old and had been idle in his hometown of Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) for five years. The poet's high spirits and frivolity in his youth are gone forever with the passage of time. Although his ambition to recover the Central Plains has not diminished, he is increasingly aware of the weakness and darkness of the small court in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the spring of this year, Lu You was appointed as the magistrate of Yanzhou again. Before his appointment, he went to Lin 'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) to see the emperor, lived in an inn near the West Lake and was summoned. In boredom, he wrote this famous book which was widely read.
Lu You has not been taken seriously since Xiaozong Xichun summoned him for five years, but he worked as an official twice in Fujian and Jiangxi to promote Changping tea and salt. After living at home for five years, I was far away from politics, but I deeply realized the changes in politics and the indifference of the world. Therefore, a clever metaphor is used at the beginning of the poem, lamenting that the world is as thin as translucent yarn. Since the world is so thin, why come out to be an official? So the next sentence said: Why did you ride to Beijing and live such a lonely and boring life?