1. Mo Xiao’s farmhouse is filled with wax wine and plenty of chickens and dolphins.
From: Traveling to Shanxi Village
Author: Lu You? (Song Dynasty)
Interpretation: Don’t laugh at farmers who make turbid wine in the twelfth lunar month. In a good harvest year, there will be plenty of wine. Treat guests with delicious food.
2. The spring breeze makes horses hoofy, and I can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day.
"After Admission" by Meng Jiao
A proud man can run as fast as a horse and can see all the flowers in Chang'an City in one day.
There was an old system in the Tang Dynasty. In the spring, new scholars were given a banquet and horses were paraded through the streets, which was very beautiful. Meng Jiao did not pass the Jinshi examination until he was almost 50 years old. He was very proud and full of ambition. In this poem, he revealed an optimism that exceeded objective reality - in fact, no matter how fast the horse is, it cannot see the spring flowers in Chang'an in one day.
3. The apes on both sides of the strait can’t stop crying. The boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains.
From: Early Departure from Baidi City/Baidi Goes to Jiangling
Author: Li Bai? (Tang Dynasty)
Interpretation: The cries of monkeys on both sides of the strait continue and echo. Continuously. While the cries of the apes still echo in my ears, the brisk boat has sailed past the endless mountains.
4. Who is as passionate as the moon in the southern mountains, especially when the clouds open at dusk?
From: Qiubomei·Climbing to the Happy Pavilion to look at the Nanshan Mountain in Chang'an on the evening of July 16th
Author: Lu You? (Song Dynasty)
Interpretation: Autumn is coming When we arrived at the border town, the horns wailed and the beacon light illuminated the Happy Pavilion. They sang loudly while building buildings, and poured wine from high places to the country, which aroused endless interest in regaining Guanzhong.
Who can push away the layers of dusk clouds like the passionate Nanshan Mingyue? The smokey green willows beside Ba Bridge and the beautiful towers beside Qujiang Pool should stand under the moonlight, waiting for the Song army to regain their lost ground and return victoriously.
5. Only then did I send spring back, and then sent you back.
From: Bu Suanzi·Send Bao Haoran to Eastern Zhejiang
Author: Wang Guan? (Song Dynasty)
Interpretation: Water is like the flowing eyes of a beautiful woman, and mountains are like The beauty frowned. I want to ask pedestrians where to go? Go to the place where mountains and rivers meet. I just sent away spring, and I want to send you back again. If you go to Jiangnan and catch the spring, be sure to keep the spring scenery.