1. A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date. Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, and make three people in the shadows. The moon doesn't know how to drink, and its shadow follows me. For now, the moon will be shadowed, and we must have fun until spring. My singing moon lingers, my dancing shadows are scattered. They make love together when they are awake, but they separate when they are drunk. We will travel together forever, and we will meet each other in Miao Yunhan. ——From the Tang Dynasty: Li Bai's "One of Four Poems for Drinking Alone Under the Moon"
Vernacular interpretation: Put a pot of fine wine among the flowers, drink it by yourself, have no friends or relatives. Raise a glass to invite the bright moon and become three people facing the figure. Of course Mingyue doesn't know how to drink, and her figure just follows me. I had no choice but to become drinking companions with them temporarily. If I want to have fun, I must seize the beautiful spring time.
When I sing, the bright moon lingers, and when I dance, my figure is scattered. We rejoice together when we are awake, but separate when we are drunk. I would like to form a friendship with them forever that will forget the pain, and meet by the misty Milky Way.
2. A straw hat, a straw hat, a small boat, a foot of silk fiber and an inch of hook. A song, a bottle of wine, and a person fishing alone in the river. ——From the Qing Dynasty: Wang Shizhen's "Picture of Fishing Alone on the Autumn River"
Vernacular interpretation: Wearing a bamboo hat and a coir raincoat, sitting on a small boat, with a fishing line one foot long and one inch long. Fishhook; sing a fishing song loudly, drink a bottle of wine, and fish alone on the river in autumn.
3. Walking by the stream taking shadows, the sky is at the bottom of the clear stream. There are moving clouds in the sky, and people are in the moving clouds. ?Who and I are singing loudly, and the voiceless sound rises in the empty valley. Neither ghost nor immortal, just a song of peach blossom water. ——From the Song Dynasty: Xin Qiji's "Sheng Chazi·Wandering Alone in Yuyan"
Vernacular interpretation: People walking by the stream are reflected in the stream, and the blue sky is reflected in the clear stream. There are floating white clouds in the blue sky, and people are walking in the floating white clouds. I sing loudly, who will respond? Just listen to the clear sound of the empty valley. The sound did not come from ghosts and gods, but from the sound of running water next to the peach blossoms.
4. Sitting alone with sad temples, the hall is empty for the second time. Mountain fruits fall in the rain, and grass and insects chirp under the lamp. Gray hair cannot be changed, but gold cannot be changed. If you want to know how to cure old age and illness, you can only learn without success. ——From the Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei's "Sitting Alone on an Autumn Night"
Vernacular interpretation: Sitting alone in sadness, my hair has turned white, it's almost the second watch in the empty hall on an autumn night. Wild fruits in the mountains fall in the autumn rain, and insects in the grass hum under the lamp. The white hair on my head has never been able to turn black, and the elixir of elixir has yet to be achieved. To know how to eliminate aging diseases, you can only learn Buddhism and practice immortality.
5. Sitting alone in the secluded bamboo, playing the piano and whistling loudly. People in the deep forest don't know that the bright moon comes to shine. ——From "Zhuli Pavilion" by Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty
Vernacular interpretation: Sitting alone in the quiet bamboo forest, sometimes playing the piano and sometimes roaring. Who in the dense forest knows I am here? Only a bright moon quietly accompanies me.