Famous sentence: The beauty of April in the world is gone, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are beginning to bloom.

Peach Blossoms in Dalin Temple

Author Bai Juyi, Tang Dynasty

The beauty of April in the world is over, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are beginning to bloom.

Eternal regret has no place to return to in spring, and I don’t know where to turn.

Translation Notes

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 regret that spring has passed away and has nowhere to be found, but I don’t know that it has moved here.