You can laugh a few times in your life, but you have to get drunk when you meet in a drinking competition. ——Cen Shen's "A Night Gathering with the Judges in the Liangzhou Pavilion"

After the floating clouds parted, the flowing water lasted for ten years. ——Wei Yingwu "Meeting the old friends in Liangchuan on the Huai River happily/Meeting the old friends in Liangzhou on the Huai River"

We are both fallen people in the world, so why should we have known each other before? ——Ma Zhiyuan's "Pipa Xing/Pipa Yin"

Don't worry if you have no friends in the future, no one in the world will know you. ——Gao Shi's "Two Songs of Farewell to Dong Da"

People in the world need gold to make friends. Without more gold, friendship will not be deep. ——Zhang Wei's "Inscription on the Master of the Wall in Chang'an"

When relatives and friends in Luoyang ask each other, their hearts are filled with ice in a jade pot. ——Wang Changling's "Farewell to Xin Jian at the Furong Tower"

There are close friends in the sea, and they are like neighbors across the world. ——Wang Bo "Send off Du Shaofu to Shuzhou/Send Du Shaofu to Shuchuan"

I advise you to have another glass of wine and go west to Yangguan without any old friends. ——Wang Wei's "Weicheng Song/Send Yuan Er Envoy to Anxi"