Author: Song Zhou Dunyi

Excerpt from the original text: Love lotus alone, muddy but not dirty, clear but not demon.

I only like the lotus, because it grows out of the mud but is clean and keeps pure in a dirty environment. ?

2. Ode to Lime

Author: Yu Qian Ming Dynasty

Excerpt from the original text: Don't be afraid of being smashed into pieces, but leave your innocence in the world.

I'm not afraid even if I'm shattered. I'm willing to leave my innocence in the world.

3. Li Sao

Author: Qu Yuan in the Warring States Period

Excerpt from the original:

Curse your heart, suppress your ambitions, but be particularly tolerant and angry.

Be innocent, die straight, and be thicker than the former sanctuary.

I would rather compromise my mind and suppress my feelings, and I would rather bear all the reprimands and curses. Keeping innocent and dying on the right path is praised by ancient sages!

4. Buju

Author: Qu Yuan in the Warring States Period

Excerpt from the original text: I would rather be honest and clean, not absurd and fat, and not embarrassed?

Are you willing to be honest and clean, or are you willing to be smooth and perfect, like fat (as smooth as ripe skin) to flatter?

5. "Evocation"

Author: Qu Yuan in the Warring States Period

Excerpt from the original text: I am young and clean, and I am loyal and not foaming. The Lord is full of virtue and happiness, and he is guided by vulgarity and filth.

When I was young, I was endowed with the virtue of incorruptibility, and I devoted myself to morality without any reduction. Such a grand virtue has been dragged down by the world.