Ancient Poetry Verses Describing Chinese Traditional Festivals

Ancient Poems Describing Traditional Chinese Festivals and Their Translations:

1. Wang Anshi, Song Dynasty, "New Year's Day":

One year is over in the sound of firecrackers, and the spring breeze sends warmth into the tassel. A thousand doors and tens of thousands of tels, always changing the new peach for the old one.

Translation:

The old year is over with the sound of firecrackers, and the warm spring breeze brings in the Tusu wine.

The rising sun shines on thousands of households, all of which have taken down their old peach talismans and replaced them with new ones.

Theme: This poem describes the lively, joyful and moving scene of renewal on the first day of the New Year, and expresses the author's ideological feelings of political renewal.

2, Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi "Qingming Night":

Good wind and moonlight on the night of the Qingming Festival, the blue brickwork and red Xuan Shi's house. The night of the Qingming Festival was a good one, and it was a good night for the Qingming Festival, and the night of the Qingming Festival was a good one.

Translation:

On the night of Qingming, when the wind is blowing and the moon is hazy, the steps are made of green stone, and the red balustrade is the residence of the assassin.

Walking alone in the winding corridor, listening to the sound of distant stringed pipe music silently admiring the flowers blooming in the courtyard.

Theme: This poem describes the poet's leisurely mood as he walks alone in the gyrating corridor on the night of the Qingming Festival, singing, listening to the sound of strings and pipes in the distance, and admiring the flowers under his eyes.

3. Lu You of the Song Dynasty wrote "Snow on the Night of the New Year":

The north wind blew snow at the beginning of the fourth shift, and Jiarui Tianjiao and the year of the new year. Half a cup of butcher's tassel has not yet been raised, and the grass in front of the lamp is written with peach symbols.

Translation:

At the beginning of the fourth night, the north wind brings a heavy snowfall; this auspicious snowfall given to us by Heaven arrives on the night of New Year's Eve, signaling a good harvest for the coming year.

Before I could raise my glass half-full of tusu wine to celebrate the New Year, I hurriedly wrote the peach symbols to welcome the spring in cursive script by the light of the lamp.

Theme: The poem depicts the poet's writing of peach symbols on New Year's Eve in preparation for the celebration of the New Year, which expresses the poet's joy and anticipation for the coming of the New Year.

4, Tang Dynasty Rong Yu "Gui Zhou Lunar New Year's Eve":

Sitting until the end of the third night, return still ten thousand miles on credit. The sound of snow is on the side of the bamboo, and cold dreams do not leave home.

The corner of the dawn is divided by the broken hourglass, and the lonely lamp falls into broken flowers. I've been with the Hussar for two years, and I've worked hard to get to the end of the world.

Translation:

The New Year's Eve celebration lasted until the end of the third night, and the road back to my hometown was ten thousand miles long and narrow.

Snowflakes soughing and falling beside the bamboo forest, the cold night several times dreaming of home.

The horn of dawn replaces the sound of the night, and the lamp is about to burn out and fall into pieces.

These two years, I left home to follow the horsemen, and I was still stranded at the end of the day after a hard day's labor.

Theme: This poem expresses the poet's feelings of nostalgia and longing for home by pointing out the reasons for not returning at the end of the year after being away from home for thousands of miles.

5, Song Dynasty Dai Fugu "New Year's Eve":

Sweeping away thatched cottages to cleanse the dust and clamor, an incense burner to worship the nine heavens. All things welcome spring and send off the remaining wax, and the end of the year is on this night.

The fire is roaring, the spindle is open, and the peppers are singing. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to do that, and I'm going to be able to do that.

Translation:

At the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year, we cleaned the house, washed away the dust of the past, and burned a pillar of incense to pay homage to heaven and earth.

Everything in the world is bidding farewell to the remnants of winter and welcoming the arrival of the new spring. After tonight, the year will be over.

The fire in the fire pit was burning brightly, and the sound of firecrackers was endless. The New Year's Eve dinner is served, and the sound of people toasting their elders with pepper and cypress wine is heard.

The farmer already knew in advance that next year would be a good harvest, for the winter's snow had not yet finished melting.

Theme: The poem depicts the ancient people preparing to celebrate the arrival of the New Year, showing the poet's feeling of anticipation for the arrival of the new year.

6. Zhang Hu of the Tang Dynasty wrote "Night Lights on the Fifteenth Day of the First Moon":

Thousands of doors were unlocked and ten thousand lights were lit, and the imperial capital was moved in the middle of the first month. The three hundred inner men danced with their sleeves, and the sound of words was heard in the sky for a while.

Translation:

On the Lantern Festival, thousands of families stepped out of their homes, and countless lanterns were lit up in the streets, as if the whole of Kyoto had been shaken.

Numerous palace maids danced the Lianxian dance with joy, and the sound of earthly songs, dances, and music went straight up to the clouds and reached to the heavens.

Theme: This poem describes the scene of the night of the Lantern Festival, in which every family goes out, thousands of people empty the alleys, and come here as much as they like, and return home as happy as they can, which makes the festival the most poetic and soulful moment of the Lantern Festival.