1. "Liu Yao Ling·Tianzhong Festival" Su Shi of the Song Dynasty
The fragrance of rice dumpling leaves floats ten miles, and the wine is carried on the bottle.
Translation: The leaves of the rice dumplings are fragrant, and the fragrance floats ten miles away. We pick up the wine glasses and drink together.
2. "Yimao Chongwu Poems" by Lu You in the Song Dynasty
Chongwu Mountain Village is good, but the durian flowers have suddenly become numerous.
The rice dumpling bun is divided into two buns, and the moxa is tied with a dangerous crown.
Translation: The Dragon Boat Festival is here, and fiery red pomegranate flowers are blooming all over the mountain village. I ate rice dumplings that looked like two horns, with mugwort stuck in their high crowns.
3. "Proud of the Fisherman: The pomegranate flowers are blooming in May" Ouyang Xiu, Song Dynasty
The pomegranate flowers are blooming in May, and the green poplars are drooping with rain.
The rice dumplings are wrapped with five-color new silk and presented on a gold plate, with two phoenixes on a fan and plate painted in raw silk.
Translation: May is the season when pomegranate flowers bloom. Willows are moistened by drizzle, and their branches and leaves hang low. People wrap polygonal rice dumplings with colorful silk threads, cook them, put them on gold-plated plates, and give them to women in their boudoir.
4. "Ten Poems about Summer" by Yuan Zhen of the Tang Dynasty
Colorful wisps of Bijun rice dumplings, fragrant Japonica white jade balls.
Translation: Colorful silk threads wrap the emerald-green rice dumplings like tourmaline, and the fragrant japonica rice is bunched together like white jade.