Ancient poems about cats:
1. Snow cats play with the shadows of flowers in the wind. ——"Butterflies in Love with Flowers" by Qin Guan of the Song Dynasty
Vernacular translation: Cats play in the soft spring breeze and flutter at the shadows of flowers.
2. Like a tiger, it can be related to wood, and like a colt, it cannot fall on its shaft. ——Lu You, Song Dynasty, "Getting a cat in a nearby village and writing a poem in the name of Xue'er"
Vernacular translation: The cat looks like a tiger but can climb trees, like a pony but doesn't need to pull a cart. .
3. The civet cat got the rat alive but not eaten, the place of the play or before and after -? Song Dynasty Qiangzhi "Give domestic animals civet flowers to two cats for one day, the rat will be kept alive but the flower will be stolen"
Vernacular translation: The civet cat does not eat the live mice it catches, but plays with them back and forth.
4. There is a cat with breasts in the room, and an orchid in the courtyard?——? Xin Qiji of the Song Dynasty, "Poems of Zhou Jingrong Hall"
Vernacular translation: There is a newborn baby in the house Kitten, there are concentric orchids in the garden.
5. The cat doesn’t know its owner, so it picks up mice at home?——?Pei Chen of the Tang Dynasty, “Another Case of the Cat”
Vernacular translation: The cat doesn’t know this house The owner of the house came to catch mice.
6. The cat catches the mouse, causing the dog to bark?——? "One of the Thirty-nine Ancient Odes" by Shi Daoshu of the Song Dynasty
Vernacular translation: Where is the cat? Catch mice and attract barking dogs.