1. A guest comes from afar and leaves me a piece of beauty. ——Dong Sigao's "Feelings after Hearing the Wild Geese"
Interpretation: The guest, who has traveled a lot, brought a piece of plain satin woven with cultural colors from afar.
2. Isn’t it great to have friends from far away? ——Mencius's "The Analects"
Interpretation: Isn't it also very happy to have like-minded people coming from afar?
3. A guest comes from afar and leaves me a pair of carps. ——Qin Guan's "Ten Spring Miscellaneous Poems"
Interpretation: A guest came from afar and gave me a carp-shaped wooden box containing silk letters.
4. The bright moon of the Qin Dynasty passed through the Han Dynasty, and the people who marched thousands of miles have not yet returned. ——Wang Changling's "Crossing the Fortress"
Interpretation: It is still the bright moon and border gates of the Qin and Han Dynasties, guarding the border and fighting fiercely against the enemy, and the soldiers who have been recruited for thousands of miles have not returned.
5. The dew is white tonight, and the moon is bright in my hometown. ——Du Fu's "Moonlight Night Remembering My Brother"
Interpretation: Tonight has entered the Bailu solar term, and the moon is still the brightest in my hometown.
6. The lonely smoke is straight in the desert, and the sun is setting over the long river. ——Wang Wei's "Envoy to the Fortress"
Interpretation: The solitary smoke rises straight up in the vast desert, and the setting sun is round and round on the endless Yellow River.
7. Being a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my family even more during the festive season. ——Wang Wei "Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9th"
Interpretation: Being far away from home alone and unable to reunite with my family, I miss my distant relatives even more during the Double Ninth Festival.
8. Don’t worry, there will be no friends in the future. No one in the world will know you. ——Gao Shi's "Farewell to Dong Da"
Interpretation: Don't worry about the road ahead being bleak and having no confidant. Who in the world doesn't know you?
9. There are close friends in the sea, and we are as close as our neighbors in the world. ——Wang Bo's "Sending Du Shaofu to Shuzhou"
Interpretation: As long as you have close friends, you will not feel far away across the world. Even though we are far away from each other, we feel like we are close neighbors.
10. Suddenly looking back, the man was there, in a dimly lit place. ——Xin Qiji's "The Green Jade Case·Yuan Xi"
Interpretation: I looked for her in the crowd thousands of times, suddenly turned around, and inadvertently found her in the scattered lights.