Tao Yuanming's famous sayings are as follows:
1. Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, you can leisurely see the Nanshan Mountain. ---Translation of "Drinking": Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely, the Nanshan Mountain in the distance comes into view.
2. The house is in a human environment, without the noise of cars and horses. I ask you, what can you do? The mind is far away from itself. ---Translation of "Drinking": Ask me how I can do this. As long as the thoughts in my heart are far away from the world, I will naturally feel that the place I am in is secluded.
3. The mountain air is getting better day by day, and the birds are flying back and forth. ---Translation of "Drinking": In the evening, the scenery of Nanshan Mountain is very beautiful, with mist lingering among the peaks and birds flying back together.
4. Birds nostalgic for the old forest, fish in the pond miss their old abyss. ---Translation of "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields": A bird in a cage is attached to the woods where it lived, and a fish in a pond longs for the deep pool where it lived.
5. After being in a cage for a long time, you can return to nature. ---Translation of "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields": I have been trapped in a cage for a long time, and now I can finally return to nature.
6. Dogs bark in the deep alleys, cocks crow at the top of the mulberry trees. ---Translation of "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Field": Crow in the deep alley, and the cock crows on the top of the mulberry tree.
7. The courtyard is free of dust and clutter, and the empty room has plenty of leisure. --- "Returning to the Garden and Living in the First Place" Translation: There are no worldly things to worry about in the courtyard, and there is plenty of free time in the empty room.
8. I wake up in the morning to sort out the wasteland and filth, and return with a hoe in the moonlight. ---Translation of "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields": Get up early in the morning and go to the fields to eradicate weeds. When night falls, you will go home under the moonlight.