Moral: Life is like a dream. Sprinkle a glass of wine to pay homage to the bright moon on the river.
Who says life can't go back to adolescence? The water in front of the door can also flow west! Don't bemoan the passage of old age! -"Huanxisha Youqiushui Qingquan Temple" Su Shi
Meaning: Who says life can't go back to adolescence? The stream in front of the door can still flow westward! Don't sigh how time flies when you are old!
Naturally, people hate water when they grow up. -"Meet Lin Huan Hua Xie Chunhong" Li Yu
Meaning: There are always too many resentments in life, just like the river that died in the East, which never stops and never ends.
It's a big dream in the world, how many times is it cool in autumn? -"Xijiang Moon, One Dream in the World" Su Shi
Meaning: Everything in the world is like a big dream. How many cool autumn has life experienced?
It is almost as difficult for friends to meet each other as the stars in the morning and evening. -"To Wei Ba Chu Shi" Du Fu
Meaning: The journey of life is often difficult to meet after parting, just like it is difficult to meet stars and businessmen.
What is life like everywhere? It should be like flying in snow. -Su Shi's From Mianchi to Harmonious Homesickness
Meaning: Life is alive, coming and going, leaving some traces carelessly. What do you think it looks like? I feel really like a swan flying around and accidentally landing in the snow somewhere.
I am disappointed, just like a pear in Dongzhu, how thoroughly and clearly I see this complicated secular life in the earthly and self-clearing. -"Donglan Pear Flower" Su Shi
Meaning: I feel blue, just like a pear flower as white as snow in Donglan. I live in the secular world and clear myself. How thoroughly and clearly I see this complicated secular life.
Life needs life, and there is wine, Long song. -"Long Songs" Wang Changling
Moral: people should keep pace with fate, and sing loudly when there is wine.
Life seems illusory, and eventually it will be empty. -Returning to the Garden Part IV Wei and Jin Dynasties: Tao Yuanming
Meaning: Life is like an illusory change, which will eventually disappear.