The Original Text and Translation of Su Shi's Cold Food Post
One said, "I have eaten cold food three times since I came to Huangzhou. I miss spring every year, and spring is not a pity. This year also suffered from continuous rain, for two months, the climate was bleak as autumn. Sniff begonia flowers and swallow branches of snow. Sneaking around in the middle of the night is really amazing. He Shu is a teenager, and his illness is white. " The second child said: "Chunjiang wants to enter the house, and the rain is coming. The hut is like a fishing boat, in a misty water cloud. The empty kitchen is cooking some cold dishes, and damp reeds are burning at the bottom of the stove. I didn't know it was a cold food, but I saw crows burning the remaining paper money. The emperor's palace gate has nine floors, which is far-reaching and difficult to return. The tombs of ancestors in the distance cannot be mourned. I'm going to cry and be poor, too. "
I have spent three cold food festivals since I came to Huangzhou. Every year, I regret the remnants of spring, but I have no choice but to leave in spring. I don't need anyone's condolences. This year, the spring rain is continuous, and two months in a row are like the bleak spring cold in autumn, and the weather is depressing. I heard in sadness that the begonia flowers had withered, and the petals falling after the rain looked red and messy on the sludge.
Beautiful flowers wither after being destroyed by rain, just like being taken away by powerful people in the middle of the night, which makes people powerless. What is the difference between this and a sick teenager whose hair has turned white after illness? In spring, the river will flood into the door and there is no sign that the rain will stop. The small house is like a fishing boat, drifting in foggy water. The kitchen was empty, so we had to cook some vegetables in the broken stove and burn them with wet reeds. I don't know what time it is today, but I saw the crow holding paper money and realized that today is the Cold Food Festival.
I want to go back to serve the imperial court, but the monarch's door is too deep for me to reach; I want to go back to my hometown, but my ancestral grave is far from Wan Li. Originally, I wanted to learn from Ruan Ji and shout for the poor, but my heart was like a resurgence.
Appreciation of works:
Appreciators of all ages praised cold food stickers as masterpieces. In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Hao's grandnephew Zhang Yan wrote an inscription on another piece of paper at the back of the manuscript: "The old immortal (referring to Su Shi) wrote brilliantly, with flowers like clouds, and the valley (referring to Huang Tingjian) inherited the calendar, which can be described as peerless treasures."
Since then, the manuscript of Two Cold Foods in Huangzhou has been called "Post". Dong Qichang, a great painter and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, wrote an inscription after the post: "I have read more than 30 original volumes of Mr. Dongpo in my life, and I must take this as a view." In the Qing Dynasty, the cold food post was taken back to the palace and included in the Sanxi Hall post. In the thirteenth year of Qianlong (1748), on the eighth day of April, Emperor Qianlong wrote an inscription on the post, "The great calligrapher of Dongpo should be Yan and Yang Hou.
This volume was written by Chen Huangzhou, followed by a valley postscript, which is overwhelming. The so-called unintentional Yoga Yu is better to highlight the past, and the word "Tang Xue aftertaste" was specially written at the beginning.
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