When was your first cold?

It has been raining since Chongyang, and I felt the chill of early winter before the light snow solar terms.

Original text:

Early cold

After a heavy rain, before a light snow.

Pick up paid servants, sell vegetables and dig boats.

Porridge porridge for the whole family, an empty bed is a blanket.

I still have to pay, but my name has to be passed on.

Translation:

It has been raining since Chongyang, and I felt the chill of early winter before the light snow solar terms. I picked up firewood and tied it into a cone-shaped bun, selling vegetables on the digging boat. The whole family drank sparse rice porridge, and only blankets were left on the empty bed, with no extra clothes on them. Do you still need a name?

Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote The First Cold.

Extended data:

Lu Yousheng was deeply influenced by family patriotism when he was a teenager. When I was in Song Gaozong, I took the does exam, but my career was not smooth because I was rejected by Qin Gui. Song Xiaozong was born a scholar after he acceded to the throne. He used to be the master book of Ningde County, Fuzhou, the official of deleting government decrees, and the judge of Longxing House. Because he insisted on resisting gold, he was repeatedly rejected by the Lord and factions.

After Song Guangzong succeeded to the throne, he was promoted to Doctor of Rites and Reviser of History Museum. Soon after, he was dismissed from office and returned to his hometown for "mocking romantics". In the second year of Jiatai, Song Ningzong called Lu You to Beijing, presided over the compilation of Filial Piety, Records of Guangzong Dynasty and History of Three Dynasties, and his official position was to be determined. After the book was written, Lu You lived in seclusion in Yin Shan for a long time, and died in Jiading for two years, leaving the last book "Xiuer".

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Early Cold