Translated by Sang Zi Ouyang Xiu

Ten Poems of Mulberry Picking

Song Ouyang Xiu

One of them

A canoe is short and the West Lake is good, and the green water is winding. The grass is on the long embankment, and the music is everywhere.

when there is no wind, the glass is slippery, so the boat will not move. Micro-ripple, started sand birds skimming the shore.

Secondly,

It is better to have a deep rain in spring than the West Lake, and a hundred flowers compete for beauty. Butterflies are noisy, and flowers are warm in sunny days.

Lan Rao painted Ge leisurely, suspecting that he was a fairy. Between the returning waves, the water is wide and the wind is high.

thirdly,

it's good to draw a boat carrying wine to the West Lake, but it's urgent to manage the strings. The jade lamp urges the biography, and it is steady and smooth.

the clouds are walking under the boat, and the empty water is clear. Pitching and lingering, it is suspected that there is another day in the lake.

the fourth

the west lake is good after the crowds, and the wolf is still red. Flying catkins, weeping willows are dry and the sun is blowing.

it's only after the tourists have gone away that I feel empty in spring. Hanging down the curtain, Shuangyan returned to the drizzle.

Fifth,

Who can enjoy the West Lake is good, and the scenery is always good. Flying cover chasing each other, greedy to get drunk among flowers.

but at leisure, the grass shines obliquely. The water is far away and the smoke is slight, and a little Cangzhou egret flies.

Sixth

The West Lake is better than the Qingming Festival, and it is full of prosperity. Who is fighting for the road, the green willows and Zhu wheels take the car.

the tourists will leave at dusk, and they will wake up drunk and make noise. The road turns into a bank, until the city head is always full of flowers.

Seventh,

The West Lake is good after the lotus blooms, and when the wine comes. There is no need for a standard, and the red building and the green cover will follow.

the boat is drawn into the depths of the flowers, and the fragrance is golden. The misty rain was slight, and I went home drunk.

the eighth

day is beautiful, the water is beautiful, and the clouds and things are fresh. Gulls and herons should be used to listening to orchestras when they are sleeping.

it's clear in the wind and white in the moon, and it's suitable for night. It's a beautiful field. Whoever envies Luan is a fairy in the boat.

the ninth

sunset glow on the west lake is good, the flower dock is beautiful, the ten hectares are flat, and there is no boat on the wild shore.

in the southwest, clouds are floating, and the porch is cool. Lotus Qing Xiang, the wind on the water wakes up the wine.

the tenth

I love the West Lake all my life, and I want to support Zhu Lun. The return of this time, like a thousand years from home, the immortal ding lingwei, whether the city walls, people and so on, everything is not seen in the past.

coming back is like Liaodong crane, the people of Chengguo. It's all new. Who knows the old owner?

Appreciation:

Ten Poems of Picking Mulberry Seeds is a set of couplet words written by Ouyang Xiu, a writer in the Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu retired to Yingzhou in his later years and loved the scenery of the West Lake in Yingzhou very much. Here he wrote these ten words, of which the first nine were about scenery and the last one was lyrical. The whole poem depicts the natural beauty of Yingzhou West Lake, which is quiet, clear and full of emotion, just like elegant landscape paintings. These ten ci poems are innovative works on the basis of inheriting the tradition, which have achieved a breakthrough in content, technique and style, and have unique aesthetic value and strong significance in the history of ci poems.

Vernacular translation:

First of all,

The scenery of the West Lake is beautiful, and it's so easy to paddle in a canoe. The green lake stretches continuously, and the flowers and plants on the long embankment exude fragrance. The faint music sings, like floating on the lake with the boat.

The windless water is as smooth as glass. I don't think the boat is moving forward, only a slight wave is rippling beside the boat. Look, the waterfowl, startled by the boat, is flying across the shore of the lake.

secondly,

the spring is deep, and the scenery of the West Lake is more beautiful after the rain clears. A hundred flowers and a hundred herbs are competing for each other, butterflies and bees are flying noisily, and the sunny sunshine shines on the flowers and they are as warm as burning.

Mulan's paddle paddled away leisurely, just like the light of the gods in the sky shining on the blue waves of the lake. The water was vast and the wind was cool, and the people on board played the orchestral melodiously.

Thirdly,

The scenery of the West Lake is really good. You can enjoy wine and dishes in the middle of the lake by painting boat, and you can't stop passing wine glasses amid the rushing and noisy music. In a calm, slow-moving boat, the sleeping and drunken guests were installed.

Zuiyan overlooks the lake. White clouds are floating under the boat, and the clear lake seems empty. Looking up at the blue sky and overlooking the lake, the water and the sky set each other off, which makes people wonder that there is another world in the lake.

fourthly, in the late spring after a hundred flowers, the scenery of the West Lake is still beautiful, and the withered red leaves are everywhere for tourists to tread. The catkins are flying wildly all over the sky, and the weeping willows are brushing the railings, and the warm wind is warm all day.

After the noisy party was over and the tourists left, I suddenly found the silence of the West Lake in spring, and I felt very lost. When I returned to the house, I lowered the curtain and Shuang Yanzi walked through the drizzle and returned to the nest.

Fifth,

No one can understand and appreciate the beauty of the West Lake, which is a beautiful scenery all the time. Mercedes-Benz carriages chased each other, drinking with jade cups as a pleasure.

who knows that from a distance, where you are resting on the railing, the grass is vast and the pulse is oblique. The water is far away and the smoke is misty. Egrets fly in the sky on the shore of the lake.

Sixth

On the Qingming Festival, the scenery of the West Lake is very good, and it is full of bustling scenes. Whose horses and chariots are fighting for the road? A car with red wheels and golden flowers, in order to get ahead, ran past the willow line by a detour.

tourists go home at dusk. Wake up, get drunk, greet each other, and make a lot of noise. From the crooked bank of the West Lake to the city head, there are open flowers along the way.

Seventh

The scenery of the West Lake is really good. After the lotus blooms, it is fragrant, and you can enjoy it by rowing a boat with a banquet. You don't need a flag to honor the ceremony, and you have your own red flowers as a green leaf to cover it.

The painted cruise ship sailed into the depths of the lotus bushes, and the golden cup was filled with fragrant wine. In the evening, the smoke was mixed with light rain, and in a piece of music and singing, the boat carried the drunken tourists home.

Eighth

The scenery of the West Lake is really good. The sky and water blend together, and the scenery is so beautiful and fresh. Gulls and egrets sleep peacefully, and they have long been used to listening to orchestras.

It's a charming night when the wind is clear and the moon is white. The lake is like a white jade field. Who would envy flying into immortality by Luan, when people are like immortals on a cruise ship!

On the ninth day

at dusk, the West Lake is especially good in style under the oblique light of the sunset and the sunset glow on the horizon. Flower dock, Pingting, ten hectares of lake water waves are calm, and an unmanned boat crosses the middle of the lake on the bank of the lake with weeds.

The moon hangs in the southwest of the sky, and the clouds above dissipate, and it is cool to lean against the railing. There were waves of fresh fragrance from the lotus on the lake, and the cool breeze on the water woke up the wine.

tenth

I have been here as the highest local governor because I love the wonderful scenery of the West Lake all my life, but wealth has passed like a floating cloud, and it has been 2 springs before I know it.

This time, it's like Ding Lingwei, a fairy who came back after thousands of years away from home. No matter the people in the city, everything has never been seen before. Who can recognize my old master, who used to be the local governor?