Introduction

Notes to the original poem

Translation

The tall pagoda tree is covered with green leaves, which are picked and sent to the kitchen (mashed into juice). Buy new flour in the market and put it together with Sophora leaf juice (make noodles with flour). Cook it in the pot and make it into cold pottery. When you put it on the table, you are always worried about not eating enough.

cold-washed chopsticks with bright green reflections and fresh asparagus are delicious. The cold noodles are colder than ice and snow when they touch the teeth, and advise the world to share the delicious mountain forest as a pearl.

I'd like to take this delicious food to the king's royal kitchen with the king's messenger on a fine horse. It's a long way to go, which worries me that the mud is difficult to pass, but my sincerity in offering delicious food to the king remains unchanged. Although the food I offer is as insignificant as bitter celery and aquatic plants (but it contains my loyalty and sincerity).

The king thousands of miles away may be on the cool hall, and the crystal jade pot at hand is filled with clear ice. The king enjoys the cool in the evening, and this cold scouring of Sophora japonica leaves is also a delicacy he needs most at this time.