1. Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty's "Yue Nu Ci·Part 1", the original text: The children of Wu have a long history, with bright eyebrows and crescent moons. My feet are like frost on my clogs, and I don't wear crow's head socks.
Translation: The girl from Wu in Changganli has beautiful features and is as beautiful as the bright moon. The feet on the wooden clogs without socks were as white as frost.
2. Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, "Yue Nu Ci·Part 2", original text: Wu'er is fair-skinned and is good for boating dramas. Selling eyes and showing love, folding flowers to seduce travelers.
Translation: The girls in Wu land are as fair as jade and are good at playing games in the fields. Cast a loving look, throw away the spring heart, and bring back flowers to mock travelers.
3. Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty's "Yue Nu Ci·Part 3", the original text: A girl picking lotuses in Yexi River sang songs when she met a guest. Laughing into the lotus, pretending to be ashamed.
Translation: The girl picking lotus in Ruoye River saw the travelers, sang a song and rowed the boat back. He smiled and hid in the lotus bushes, pretending to be too shy to come out.
4. "Lotus Picking Song" by Wang Changling of the Tang Dynasty, original text: Wu Ji, the more beautiful Princess Chu, fights over the lotus boat and wets her clothes. When you come, you will be greeted by flowers from Pukou, and you will be sent home after harvesting them in the first month of the Yangtze River.
Translation: The lotus-picking girls, who were as beautiful as the beauties of the Wu Kingdom and the concubines of the Yue Kingdom, competed to row the lotus-picking boats, and their clothes were wet by the lake water. Lotus flowers welcomed them into the river mouth when they came, and after picking them, the bright moon sent them back to the riverside.
5. "Nanxiangzi·Chengcai Fang" by Li Xun of the Tang Dynasty, the original text: Riding on a colorful boat, crossing the lotus pond, singing songs to wake up the sleeping mandarin ducks. Wandering girls bring fragrance and cuddle up with each other, laughing, vying for beauty, and folding lotuses to cover up the evening photos.
Translation: Riding on a colorful boat, passing by the lotus pond, the melodious boat songs awaken the sleeping mandarin ducks. The girls covered in fragrance just cuddled up to their companions and smiled sweetly. All of these girls had beautiful postures. They folded lotus leaves to block the sunset while smiling.