1. Quatrains
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
Two orioles sing in the green willows, and a row of egrets ascends to the blue sky.
The window contains Qianqiu snow of Xiling, and the door is docked with a ship thousands of miles away from Dongwu.
Translation
Two orioles sang gracefully among the green willow trees, and a neat group of egrets rushed straight into the blue sky.
I sit in front of the window and can see the snow that never melts all year round on the west ridge, and the ships that have traveled thousands of miles away from Soochow are moored in front of the door.
2. Two quatrains
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
Chiri, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, 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 are busy building nests with wet mud in their mouths, and pairs of mandarin ducks are sleeping on the warm sand.
3. Two quatrains·Part 2
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
The green birds in the river are more than white, and the blue flowers in the mountains are about to burn.
This spring has passed again and again, when will it be the return year?
Translation
The green river water makes the feathers of the birds whiter, the mountains are green, and the red wild flowers seem to be burning.
This spring is coming to an end again. When is the date for me to return to my hometown?
4. Seven quatrains about walking alone by the river looking for flowers
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
I am annoyed by the flowers on the river, and there is nowhere to tell me but I am crazy.
Walking around to find a drinking companion from my neighbor in the south, I spend ten days drinking alone in an empty bed.
The dense flowers and stamens are afraid of the riverside, and walking in danger is really afraid of spring. (Afraid of the first work: wrapping)
Poetry and wine are still enough to drive, and there is no need to cook the white-headed man.
The river is deep and the bamboos are quiet for two or three houses, and the busy red flowers reflect the white flowers.
To repay the spring sunshine, you should send good wine to your life.
Looking east, Shaocheng is full of flowers, and the tall buildings with hundreds of flowers are even more pitiful.
Who can open the golden cup with wine and summon the beautiful women to dance and embroider the banquet?
In front of Huangshi Pagoda, the river is east, and the spring scenery is lazy and leaning on the breeze.
A cluster of peach blossoms blooms without an owner. Love the deep red and the light red?
Huang Si’s parents’ house is full of flowers, with thousands of flowers hanging down the branches.
The butterflies dance all the time, and the orioles sing at ease.
It’s not that you want to die because you love flowers, but you’re just afraid that they’ll run out and grow old.
Many branches are easy to fall off one after another, and the young stamens are open carefully.
Translation
I was so troubled by the spring flowers on the riverside that I had nowhere to express my feelings, so I had to wander around.
I came to the south neighborhood looking for a partner who loves drinking. Unexpectedly, his bed was already empty and he went out drinking ten days ago.
The luxuriant flowers and stamens wrap around the riverside like a brocade, and I am really afraid of spring when I walk crookedly among them.
But for now, poetry and wine can still be at my disposal, so there is no need to bear any psychological burden on me, a white-headed man.
There are two or three families living in the quiet bamboo forest on the bank of the Shenjiang River. The provocative red flowers stand out against the white flowers.
I have a place to repay the kindness of spring. The oars in the hotel can send my years away.
Looking east at Shaocheng, the flowers are like smoke, and the tall white flower restaurant is even more eye-catching.
Who can bring me wine and invite me to drink freely, and call me beautiful women to sing and dance at a grand banquet?
When we came to the east bank of the river in front of Huangshi Pagoda, we felt sleepy and lazy, bathing in the warm spring breeze.
An ownerless peach blossom is in full bloom. Should I love the deep red or the light red?
The lush flowers of Huang Si’s natal family cover the path, and thousands of flowers bend the branches low to the ground.
The colorful butterflies are always flying among the fragrant flowers, and the soft and free orioles are singing happily.
It’s not that I love flowers to the point of death, it’s just that I’m afraid that when the flowers run out, I’ll be forced to live in old age.
When the flowers are in full bloom, they tend to fall one after another. Please consider opening the tender pistil slowly.
5. Four Quatrains
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
Bamboo shoots grow in the west of the hall, do not open the door, but peppers go to the north of the cut, but they carry the village.
The plum blossoms are ripe and Xu eats them with Zhu Lao, and the pine trees are high and they discuss Ruan Sheng.
I want to be like weirwood clouds and become turbulent again, but I am surprised by the sound of cold rain in April.
There was a dragon cave in Qingxi first, where mountains of bamboo and stone were too big to be set down.
Two orioles sang in the green willows, and a row of egrets climbed into the blue sky.
The window contains Qianqiu snow of Xiling, and the door is docked with a ship thousands of miles away from Dongwu.
The medicine strips are moist and green, and the color is past the brown pavilion and enters the grass pavilion.
The seedlings are all over the empty mountain and they are ashamed to be praised, and their roots are cowardly in the gaps.
Translation
The bamboo shoots on the west side of the hall are so lush that they block the door. The row peppers planted in the north of the chasm are also lush and grow in a row, but they separate the neighboring villages.
When he saw the plums that were about to ripen in the garden, he invited Mr. Zhu to taste them when they were ripe. When he saw the pine trees in front of the hall, he hoped to talk with Ruan Sheng about the past and the present under the shade of the pine trees.
I was planning to build a weir beam when suddenly dark clouds covered the rapids, and then I was surprised that the rain in April was so cold.
Maybe there have been dragons living in this green stream for a long time. Even though the bamboo and stones used to build the embankment are piled up like mountains, we dare not take risks again.
Orioles are calling spring among the fresh green willows, and they are in pairs so festive; egrets fly into the sky in rows facing the spring breeze, and the formation is so beautiful.
The snowy peaks of Xiling are like a beautiful painting embedded in the window frame; the ship in front of this door actually came from Soochow thousands of miles away.
The branches and leaves of the medicinal herbs grow lush green, and the green color spreads across the palm pavilion and into the grass pavilion.
I don’t deserve the reputation of “empty mountains full of seedlings”, as I’m afraid they won’t be able to form their roots in the cracked soil.