Fuchai Temple
题 夫 差 庙
纵 敌 稽 山 祸 已 胎
垂 涎 上 国 更 荒 哉。
不 知 养 虎 自 遗 患
只 道 水 鱼 无 后 灾。
梦 见 梧 桐 生 后 圃
眼 看 麋 鹿 上 高 台。
千 龄 只 有 忠 臣 恨
化 作 涛 江 雪 浪 堆。
Ti Fu Chai Miao
Zong di ji shan huo yi tai
Chui xian shang guo geng huang zai.
Bu zhi yang hu zi yi huan
Zhi dao shui yu wu hou zai.
Meng jiang wu tong shen hou pu
Yan kan mi lu shang gao tai.
Qian ling zhi you zhong chen hen
Hua zuo tao jiang xue lang dui.
Fuchai Temple
Small kingdom enemies, disasters arise within the mountains
The politically corrupt bring wastelands to their nations!
Do not know how to lose the troubles brought to us by the Jin
Our waters and desires like fishermen who catch things other than fish.
In some dreams they see parasol and paulownia trees behind orchids
However, if elk and deer arrive upon the scene, this is a bad omen.
For thousands of years only the loyal government officials can feel regret
The Wuzi Shu story tells us to worry only about our own affairs.
Notes:
Jin: An imperial dynasty (1115-1234) located to the north of the Song Dynasty. Roughly the modern day provinces of Heilongjiang; Jilin; and Liaoning. Historical region of the Jurchen (Manchu) people, and also known as Manchuria.
Wuzi Shu: (?-484 BC) Alternate spelling is Wu Zixu. He was a military general for the Wu Kingdom. His name is used as a metaphor for “loyalty”. He is also known as the “God of the Waves”, and connected with the famous tidal bore waves on the Qiangtang River near the city of Hangzhou. Wu is sometimes credited as being the inventor of the waterwheel.