📅🍃😌 Twelve months of leisure’s grace, Thirty-six thousand days I embrace. Content heart, far from the fray, No fame or fortune’s lure I chase. Tranquil paths, my chosen way. // 一年十二个悠闲月， 三万六千和缓日。 心怀深情自得意， 纵使他方马蹄声。 不图虚名与利道。 Yī nián shí’èr gè yōuxián yuè, sān wàn liùqiān héhuǎn rì. Xīnhuái shēnqíng zì déyì, zòngshǐ tāfāng mǎtí shēng. Bù … Read more
😢🎭🤐 A thread of fate, life’s jesting art, Midst warmth and joy, comes pain’s sharp dart. Not truly salty, yet not plain, Not quite close, yet not far in vain. Only I know my own heart’s strain. // 造化弄人如细丝， 暖意中夹着苦涩。 不咸不淡味难辨， 不远不近情难断， 唯愿自知其中事。 Zàohuà nòng rén rú xìsī, Nuǎn yì zhōng jiāzhe kǔsè. Bù xián … Read more
🌿🏞️🍂 Contentment waits in countryside so fair, Enough for spring, summer, fall, and winter’s care. With gentle breeze and moonlight clear, A landscape of flowers and streams so near. Who could find a joy greater than here? // 心所喜处，乡野常在， 足供春夏秋冬之趣。 清风明月自得闲， 山水画卷草花间。 此乐几人能胜我。 Xīn suǒ xǐ chù, xiāng yě cháng zài, Zú gōng chūn xià … Read more
⏳🌲🏙️ Life’s fleeting, swiftly we grow old, Time’s moon and breeze, flowers to behold. Ask those wanderers of yore, In forest, town, who truly knows more. A hundred years, we silently smile, told. // 浮生若梦忽已老， 趁雪月风花遂心意。 问那四方漂泊客， 林泉市井几知音。 百年空自暗笑身。 Fúshēng ruò mèng hū yǐ lǎo, Chèn xuě yuè fēng huā suì xīnyì. Wèn nà sìfāng … Read more
🚶♂️💭📖 When honored, join the grand in their bath. With dreams, explore new paths, be bold, As the books say, “Contentment’s gold.” Born into this worldly fold. // 漂泊时当停尘足， 荣耀时莫挤殿台。 有心愿才可试乐途， 书中有言“随遇而安”。 既已生于此人间。 Piāobó shí dāng tíng chén zú, Róngyào shí mò jǐ diàn tái. Yǒu xīnyuàn cái kě shì lè tú, Shū zhōng yǒu … Read more
🏃♂️🕰️👴 When young, play hard, enjoy it full, Lest old and frail, you meet your pull. With speckled skin and silver hair, Regretful sighs won’t take you there. So play, my friend, while youth is fair. // 年轻时要尽情玩够， 免得老来蹒跚才离开。 皱纹白发又何妨， 只叹当年未曾尽兴。 快快玩耍啊，朋友。 Niánqīng shí yào jìnqíng wán gòu, Miǎnde lǎo lái pánshān cái líkāi. Zhòuwén … Read more
🌙🍃☁️ There’s still moon and breeze, breeze and moon, Worry not that youth ends too soon. If the sky turns and looks one day, Who’s lived more, it will convey. For all things, Heaven holds the sway. // 尚余风月，风月尚余， 莫忧青春不复回。 苍天终有一日回首， 便知谁历过更深。 须知万般皆由天定。 Shàng yú fēng yuè, fēng yuè shàng yú, Mò yōu qīngchūn bù … Read more
🤗🛣️🤔 Don’t worry about the lack of confidants in the road ahead, And that no one in the world knows you. // 莫愁前路无知己， 天下谁人不识君。 Mò chóu qián lù wú zhī jǐ, Tiān xià shéi rén bù shí jūn. // Mạc sầu tiền lộ vô tri kỷ, Thiên hạ thùy nhân bất thức quân. // Chớ … Read more
[I’d rather be sitting here / Cũng là ngồi, nhưng muốn ngồi ở đây] ⛱️🌞🧘♂️ Sitting quietly through long summer days, No words spoken in all my ways. What am I doing, you might ask? Just enjoying peace, no task to unmask. // 長夏此靜坐， 終日無一言。 問君何所為？ 無事心自閑。 Zhǎng xià cǐ jìngzuò, Zhōngrì wú yī yán. … Read more