A Couplet in Huguang Guild Hall and Its English Translation

Chongqing Huguang Club, located at No.4 Dongshuimen Street, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, was built in the 24th year of Qingganlong (1759) and expanded in the 26th year of Daoguang (1846). The guild hall covers an area of 856 1 m2. There are four theaters: Guangdong Guild Hall, Jiangnan Guild Hall, Hunan Guild Hall, Jiangxi Guild Hall and Guangdong CCBA and Qi 'an CCBA. The main themes of the hall are The Journey to the West, The West Chamber, The List of Gods, Twenty-four Filial Pieties, dragons and phoenixes, animals and various exotic flowers and grasses. The whole ancient building complex is carved with columns and painted with buildings. It is the representative of southern architectural art in China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is also the largest existing ancient hall complex in China. In Dongshuimen area, according to the geomantic theory, the inner side of the river bend is "auspicious land" and the outer side is "fierce land". Dongshuimen area happens to be the place where Suzaku dances, and the feng shui is very good, so the guild hall is located here. -Baidu Encyclopedia

A meaningful couplet:

Right and wrong, kindness and resentment, all come to seriously think about things.

Busy, sitting in the morning and evening, raining, natural and graceful.

English translation 1

What is right or wrong? You have done right or wrong. Come on, chew what is right and wrong.

What's done is irreversible. Let go of everything, sit down and don't frown from dusk to dawn.

Translated by Professor Zhao Yanchun of Tianjin Foreign Studies University.

English translation ii

Good or bad, right or wrong, high or low, to think and recall what has been done;

Trekking and toiling, tears and sweat, dawn and dusk, come and sit down and relax what ran away.

Translated by Dr. Xu Jingcheng, Bangor University, UK