Poems related to the Spring Festival include: "Yuan Ri", "New Year's Composition", "Heavy Night Snow", "Tian Jia Yuan Ri", "New Year's Composition", etc.
1. "Yuan Day" by Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty
The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu.
Thousands of households always exchange old talismans for new peaches.
Translation:
In the sound of crackling firecrackers, we bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. When people drank the delicious Tusu wine, there was a warm spring breeze blowing across the street, which was very pleasant.
At dawn, every household took down the old peach charms and replaced them with new ones to welcome the new year.
2. "New Year's Works" by Liu Changqing of the Tang Dynasty
The New Year is in the heart of the country, and the sky is alone with tears.
When you grow old, you live among others, and when you return in spring, you come first.
The mountains and apes are in the same day and evening, and the rivers and willows are surrounded by wind and smoke.
Already like Changsha Fu, a few years from now.
Translation:
In the New Year, I miss my hometown even more urgently. How can I not shed tears when I am alone at the end of the world?
I am old but still dependent on others, but spring comes back earlier than me.
In the morning and evening in Lingnan, you can only stay with the apes and monkeys, or bear the wind and smoke with the willows by the river.
I am like Jia Yi in the Western Han Dynasty who was demoted to Changsha Taifu. I don’t know how many years will it take before I have the opportunity to return home!
3. "Heavy Snow" Song·Lu You
The north wind blows snow at the beginning of the fourth watch, Jiarui Tianjiao and the new year.
Half of the lamp has been used to slaughter Su, and peach symbols are written on the grass in front of the lamp.
Good harvest.
Before the half-filled cup of Tusu wine could be raised in celebration, I was still writing the peach charms to welcome the Spring Festival in cursive script under the lamp.
4. "Tian Jia Yuan Day" Tang Dynasty Meng Haoran
The fight returned to the north last night, and today we are rising east.
I have become an official in my old age, but I am still worried about farmers without a salary.
The father plowed the fields, and the shepherd boy followed him with the hoe.
The Tian family accounts for the climate, and the emperor said it will be a good year.
Translation:
Last night the handle of the Big Dipper turned to the east, and this morning the year begins again.
I am already forty years old. Although I do not have an official position, I am still worried about farming.
Close to the farmers working in the fields full of mulberry trees, carrying hoes and working together with the shepherd boys.
Farmers speculate on this year’s harvest and say it will be a bumper year.
5. "Great Night Works" by Gao Shi of the Tang Dynasty
The hotel is sleepless under the cold light, and the guest's heart is filled with sadness.
My hometown is far away tonight, and I will see another year of frost on my temples tomorrow.
Translation:
I was lying alone in the hotel, with the cold light shining on me, and it was hard to fall asleep for a long time. What is it that makes me, a tourist, feel desolate and sad?
People in my hometown must be missing me tonight, who is thousands of miles away; my hair on the temples has turned gray, and tomorrow will be a new year.