Ching Ming Festival handbill quotes and lines:

1. Flowers burn in the color of the mountains, willow lying in the sound of water.

From: Song Dynasty Fan Chengda's "Qingming Day Beaver Ferry Road".

Translation: The flowers are coloring the mountains, and the willows are lying on the water.

2. A poor house is often without fireworks, not only for Zi Pui in the Ming Dynasty.

From: "Cold Food" by Meng Yunqing of the Tang Dynasty.

Translation: The poor life usually does not make fire to cook, not only tomorrow to eat cold food like Zi push.

3. Don't sigh at the wind and dust in plain clothes.

From: Lu You's "The First Rain of Spring in Lin'an", Song Dynasty.

Translation: Don't sigh that the dust of Kyoto will dirty the white clothes, the Qingming Festival is still in time to return to the mirror lake in the mountain home.

4, no flowers, no wine over the Qingming Festival, the flavor of depression like a wild monk.

From: "Qingming" by Wang Yucheng of the Song Dynasty.

Translation: The Qingming Festival is spent without flowers or wine, and the mood is as sluggish as that of the monks living in the temples in the mountains and the countryside.

5. There are no flowers anywhere in the city of spring, and the east wind of the cold eclipse makes the willow slant.

From: "Cold Eclipse" by Han Shide of the Tang Dynasty.

Translation: In the twilight of spring, willow wadding flies everywhere in Chang'an City, falling red countless, and the east wind blows the willow trees in the imperial city during the Cold Food Festival.