In the cold winter, sparrows chirped on the branches, and a gust of wind blew over and startled the snowflakes flying down the branches.

Original text:

The cold birds are full of bamboo branches, and the wind is blowing and the jade flowers are flying.

the crab with orange and sugar is new and beautiful, and it makes me feel that everything is wrong in life.

Vernacular translation:

In the cold winter, sparrows chirped on the branches, and a gust of wind blew over and startled the snowflakes flying down the branches. Citrus and sweet crab roe are recent delicacies. After a glass of turbid wine, I suddenly feel that everything in the world is not important.

This article comes from the extended information of "Drinking" by Su Shunqin in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Creative background:

In the first year of Jing You, he was admitted as a scholar and served as the magistrate of Mengshan County. He has successively served as a judge in Dali, a school manager in Jixian Temple, and a supervisor in the Academy. Supporting Fan Zhongyan's innovation in celebrating the calendar, Wang Gongchen, who was in the imperial history, illegally played, resigned and lived in Suzhou, and built Canglang Pavilion. In the eighth year of Qingli (148), he served as the long history of Huzhou, but he did not arrive at his post and died of illness at the age of 41.

He advocated the movement of ancient Chinese prose and was good at poetry. Together with Mei Yaochen, the founder of the Song Dynasty, he was called "Su Mei", and he wrote 16 volumes of Poems and Essays of Su Xueshi and Su Shunqin Collection. The Four-part Series was published in Kangxi, and now it has Su Shunqin Collection.