I. Translation
When you were born, I was not born. When I was born, you were old. You resent me for being born too late, and I resent you for being born too early. A sad feeling of meeting each other after a brief encounter, but missing each other.
II. Introduction
Poems on Porcelain in Tongguan Kiln generally refers to Twenty-one Poems on Porcelain in Tongguan Kiln, which is a popular folk poem in Tang Dynasty, and is named after being included in porcelain made by porcelain makers. The genre of Twenty-one Poems on Porcelain in Tongguan Kiln is all five-character poems.
This poem is an inscription on the porcelain of Tongguan kiln in Tang Dynasty. The author may have created it by the Potter himself, or it may have been a popular alley ballad at that time. Widely circulated among the people, the Tongguan Kiln site in Changsha, Hunan Province was unearthed between 1974- 1978. See Chen's Supplement to Complete Tang Poems, Volume 56, Five-character Poems by Anonymous, 1642, Zhonghua Book Company, 1992+00.
Third, the entrepreneurial background
Changsha Tongguan Kiln pioneered the underglaze color in China, and used painting themes and poems for porcelain decoration. The famous Tongguan Kiln in Changsha in Tang Dynasty not only pioneered the new technology of underglaze porcelain, but also inscribed poems on porcelain in a unique way, which not only achieved the decorative purpose at that time, but also left a valuable cultural heritage for today.
References:
Tongguan Kiln Porcelain Inscription Poetry _ Baidu Encyclopedia