and yet, while China holds our friendship, and heaven remains our neighbourhood. (farewell to vice-prefect du setting out for his official post in shu by Wang Bo)

2. o Prince of Friends, you are gone again, I hear them sighing after you. (seeing friends off by Li Bai)

3. grasses return again green in the spring, but O my Prince of Friends, do you?? (Bai Juyi's farewell to the ancient grass)

4. Weicheng is rainy and dusty, and the guest house is green and willow-colored.

I advise you to drink one more glass of wine, and go out to Yangguan for no reason. (Wang Wei's "Send Yuan Er Shi An Xi") 5. Cold rain enters Wu at night, and Pingming sends guests to Chu Mountain alone; (Wang Changling's "at hibiscus inn parting with xin jian")

6. Mochow has no confidant in the road ahead, and everyone in the world knows the gentleman. (Gao Shi's "Bie Dong Da")

7. Peach Blossom Pond and thousands of feet are not as good as Wang Lun's. (Li Bai's "Gift to Wang Lun")

8. The lonely sail is far from the blue sky, only the Yangtze River flows in the sky. (

9. and then he disappears at the turn of the pass, leaving behind him only hoof-prints). (Cen Can's a Song of White Snow in Farewell to Field-Clerk Wu Going Home)

1. Outside the pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is blue. The evening breeze blows the willow flute, and the sunset is beyond the mountains.

the horizon is a corner of the sea, and intimate friends are scattered. I'll leave Meng Han tonight after a bottle of wine. (Li Shutong's "Farewell"

Homesickness in the poem

1. you who have come from my old country. Tell me what has happened there!.

was the plum, when you passed my silken window, is Han Mei blooming? (Wang Wei's Miscellaneous Poems)

2. When the young leave home, the old man returns, and the local accent has not changed.

Where do children come from when they meet strangers?

3. He Zhizhang's "Hometown Couplet Book". Lingwai Sound Book Break, winter after winter, spring after spring.

now, nearing my village, meeting people, I dare not ask a single question. Song Zhiwen Crossing the Han River

4. under blue mountains we wound our way, my boat and I, along green water.

until the banks at low tide widened, with no wind stirring my lone sail.

...Night now yields to a sea of sun, and the old year melts in freshets.

at last I can send my messengers, wildgeese, homing to Loyang. (Wang Wan's a mooring under north fort hill)

5. People are only seven days old in spring and have been away from home for two years.

when people fall into the wild goose, they think before the flowers. (Xue Daoheng's Homecoming)

6. so bright a gleam on the foot of my bed, could there have been a frost already?.

lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight, sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home. (Li Bai's Thoughts on a Silent Night

7. The sound of Yu Di's dark flying has scattered people and filled Los Angeles with spring breeze.

I heard the willow breaking in this nocturne, and no one can miss the national conditions. (Li Bai's "Smelling the flute in Los Angeles on a Spring Night")

8. It has been ten frosts in the guest house, and I miss Xianyang day and night.

crossing the mulberry river for no reason, but hoping that Bingzhou is my hometown. (Liu Zao's Journey to the North)

9. In a wanderer hears drums portending battle, a wild goose is singing in autumn.

he knows that the dews tonight will be frost, how much brighter the moonlight is at home!.

o my brothers, lost and scattered, what is life to me without you?.

yet if missives in time of peace go wrong, what can I hope for during war?. (Du Fu's "remembering my brothers on a moonlight night")