Guogurenzhuang
Tang Dynasty: Meng Haoran
The old friend prepared a good meal, and asked me to come to his hospitable farm.
The green woods were around the village, and the green hills lay outside the city.
Open the window and face the valley vegetable garden, hand over the glass to chat about the crops.
When the ninth festival comes, please come here to see the chrysanthemum.
translation
My old friend prepared a sumptuous meal and invited me to his hospitable farmhouse.
Green Woods surround the village, and green mountains lie across the city.
Open the window to face the grain field vegetable garden, raise your glass and chat about the crops.
When the Double Ninth Festival comes, please come here to watch chrysanthemums.
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(1) Pass: Visit. Old friend's grange: an old friend's grange. Zhuang, grange.
(2) Equipment: prepare and set up. Chicken and millet: refers to the rich meals that farmers entertain (literally refers to chicken and yellow rice). Millet (shǔ): Yellow rice, which was considered as the first-class food in ancient times.
(3) invitation: invitation. To: to.
(4) close: surround.
5. Guo: The ancient city walls had both internal and external features, with the city inside and the Guo outside. This refers to the outer wall of the village. Inclined (xi×): inclined. Because the ancient poem needs to rhyme with the previous sentence, you should read xiá.
[6] Open: Open, open. Xuan: Windows. Face: facing. Nursery: field, threshing floor and rice field; Garden, vegetable garden.
(7) Holding a wine set means drinking. Pick it up. Pick it up Sang Ma: Chatting about farming. Sang Ma: Mulberry and hemp. This refers to crops in general.
(8) Double Ninth Festival: refers to the ninth day of September in the summer calendar. The ancients had the custom of climbing mountains and drinking chrysanthemum wine on this day.
⑼ huán: Come back. Chrysanthemum: refers to drinking chrysanthemum wine, which also means enjoying chrysanthemum. Just, get close to, mean to do something.