Poems about food

1. Boil beans to hold as a soup, strain beans for juice. -- Cao Zhi, State of Wei, Three Kingdoms Period, Seven Steps Poem

Translation in vernacular: Boiling beans to make a bean soup, trying to strain out the residue of the beans and leave the juice for the soup.

2. The Artemisia vulgaris is full of reed buds, and it is the time when the river dolphin wants to go up. ? --"Two Songs on the Dawn Scene of the Spring River in Huichong" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty

The vernacular translation is: The river bank is already full of Artemisia vulgaris, and the reeds are beginning to bud, and the river dolphin is just about to swim upstream from the sea back to the river at this time.

3. Grapes and wine in a night-glowing cup, wanting to drink the pipa right away.

Vernacular translation: At the banquet, the sweet wine of grapes was filled in the exquisite luminous cups, and the singers played the rapid and joyful sound of pipa, urging them to drink.

4. Pine flowers make wine, spring water makes tea.

5. The wind blows the willow blossoms to fill the store with fragrance, and Wu Ji presses the wine to call the customers to taste it.

Vernacular translation: The spring wind blew up the willows, the hotel was full of fragrance, the maid brought out the wine and urged me to savor it.