Please translate the poem "The city towers are full of jade railings, and the snow is clear but not too cold"
Translation: The whole city is dyed white with snow and the railings are as white as jade. When it snows, the sky is clear and it will no longer be cold.
From one of Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian's "Three Poems of Ciyun Zhang Secret School's Joy of Snow".
Original text:
The city towers are full of jade railings, and it is snowy and sunny but not too cold. Moisten the bamboo roots and fatten the wax shoots, and warm the vegetable shells to help the spring dish.
There are many things to do in front of you, but less to see and travel, and you have no worries in your chest and a wide capacity to drink. I heard that if the pears pressed into the sand have moved, they will have to whip their horses and trample the mud to see.
Translation:
The whole city is dyed white with snow and the railings are as white as jade. When it snows, the sky is clear and it will no longer be cold. The roots of the bamboos are moistened by the snow, allowing the bamboo shoots to grow. The weather is starting to get warmer, and the vegetables are getting longer and better, which heralds the arrival of spring. There are many things to do in front of you but not enough to watch and play. If you don't have any worries in your heart, you will naturally drink more. I heard that the pressed sand pears had begun to move, so I whipped up my whip and drove my horses through the spring mud to watch them.
Extended information
The Song Dynasty poet Huang Tingjian's "Three Poems about Joy of Snow in the Second Rhyme Zhang Secret School" describes the scene of the light snow season, which is the twenty-fourth solar term. The father of Feng Dafu Huang Xiang in the Southern Song Dynasty, the filial son of the Northern Song Dynasty, the protagonist of the story of "Drowning relatives and drowning utensils" in "Twenty-Four Filial Piety", a famous writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the founder of the Jiangxi Poetry School.
Huang Tingjian's calligraphy is unique and he is one of the "Four Calligraphers of the Song Dynasty". Li Zhimin, a professor at Peking University and the pioneer of introducing monuments to grass, commented: "Huang Tingjian's discussion of calligraphy, painting appreciation, and poetry evaluation all put rhyme characters first. He introduced crane inscriptions into grass, which is powerful and unrestrained, and has a new realm."
Huang Tingjian, Zhang Lei, Chao Buzhi, and Qin Guan all traveled and studied under Su Shi, and they were collectively known as the "Four Scholars of the Su School". During his lifetime, he was as famous as Su Shi and was known as "Su Huang" in the world. His works include "Valley Ci" and so on. Huang Tingjian was an upright official throughout his life, rigorous in his studies, and set an example for the ages as a literary master and a model of filial piety and integrity.