1. "Two Evening Scenes on the Spring River by Hui Chong (Part 1)"
Northern Song Dynasty: Su Shi
Three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo are a prophet of the warmth of the spring river.
The ground is covered with wormwood and short reed buds, which is when the puffer fish is about to come.
Translation: Two or three peach blossoms are blooming outside the bamboo forest. Ducks are playing in the water. They are the first to notice the warming of the river in early spring. The river beach is already covered with wormwood, asparagus has begun to sprout, and the pufferfish are about to swim upstream from the sea to the river.
2. "Gift to Wang Lun"
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
Li Bai was about to go on a boat when he suddenly heard singing on the shore.
The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun’s gift to me.
Translation: Li Bai was about to leave for a long journey in a boat, when he suddenly heard the sound of singing from the shore. Even if the water of Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, it can't compare with Wang Lun's feelings for me.
3. "Peach Blossoms in Dalin Temple"
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
The beauty of April in the world is gone, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple begin to bloom.
Eternal regret has no place to return to in spring, and I don’t know where to turn.
Translation: In April in the human world, all the flowers have withered, but the peach blossoms in the ancient temples on the mountains have just begun to bloom. I often feel sad that spring has passed away and I can't find it anywhere, but I don't know that it has moved here.
4. "Walking Alone by the River Looking for Flowers Part 5"
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
In front of the 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?
Translation: The blue spring water of the river in front of Huangshi Pagoda rolls eastward. The warm spring makes people sleepy, and they just want to take a rest against the spring breeze. An ownerless peach blossom is in full bloom. Do you prefer dark red or light red?
5. "Song of Peach Blossom Temple"
Ming Dynasty: Tang Yin
There is a Peach Blossom Temple in Taohuawu, and a peach blossom fairy in Peach Blossom Temple.
The Peach Blossom Fairy planted peach trees and folded flower branches to pay for wine.
When you are sober, you just sit in front of flowers; when you are drunk, you have to sleep under flowers.
Day after day after flowering, drunkenly and awake year after year.
I don’t want to bow in front of carriages and horses, but I want to die of old age and spend time drinking wine.
The chariot, dust, and horses are enough for the rich, but the wine-gold twigs are for the poor.
If you compare wealth to poverty, one is on the ground and the other is in the sky.
If the poor and the lowly were compared to a chariot and a horse, he would have to drive and I would have nothing to do.
The world laughs at me for being too cool, but the world doesn’t see through me.
I remember the Tomb of the Heroes of Wuling, working in the fields without wine or flowers.
Tang Yin, the owner of Peach Blossom Temple in the third month of Hongzhi Yichou
Translation: There is a Peach Blossom Temple in Taohuawu, and there is a Peach Blossom Fairy under the Peach Blossom Temple. The Peach Blossom Fairy planted peach trees and broke off peach blossom branches to pay for the wine. When you are sober, you just sit in front of the peach blossoms; when you are drunk, you sleep under the peach blossoms.
Beside the peach blossoms day after day, getting drunk and sober year after year. Not willing to bow down before the luxurious carriages and horses, I just want to spend my days admiring flowers and drinking wine and die. Running around with carriages and horses is the pleasure of the rich, while those without wealth pursue wine cups and flower branches.
If you compare wealth and poverty, there is a world of difference. If we compare the life of poverty with the life of hard work and fatigue, what they get is the pain of running around, while what I get is the joy of leisure.
People in the world laugh at me for being too crazy, and I laugh at them for being too superficial. I still remember that there were no flowers or wine in front of the tombs of the heroes of Wuling. Now they have been plowed into fields. In March of the Yichou year of Hongzhi, Tang Yinzuo, the owner of Taohua Temple.