Starting to Live South of Chengdu, Send This Letter to My Old Farming Friends
初 发 太 城 留 别 田 父
秋 苗 五 月 未 入 土
行 人 欲 行 心 更 苦。
路 逢 田 翁 有 好 语
竟 说 宿 米 三 尺 雨。
行 人 虽 去 亦 伸 眉
翁 皆 好 住 莫 相 思。
流 渠 汤 汤 声 满 野
今 年 醉 饱 鸡 豚 社。
Chu Fa Tai Cheng Liu Bie Tian Fu
Qiu miao wu yue wei ru tu
Xing ren yu xing xin geng ku.
Lu feng tian weng you hao yu
Jing shui su mi san che yu.
Xing ren sui qu yi shen mei
Weng jie hao zhu mo xiang si.
Liu qu shang shang sheng man ye
Jin nian zui bao ji tun she.
Starting to Live South of Chengdu, Send This Letter to My Old Farming Friends
Fifth lunar month, they have yet to plant for their autumn millet
Expecting to travel a lot, this news changes my mood to bitterness.
Where the highway ends in the fields, old men have better news for me
Overnight, many inches of rain has fallen.
Now this traveler can depart with happy eyebrows
Do not worry for them, a good harvest is in store for these old farmers.
In this open country, the sound of torrential flows moving through the canals
After a sober year, it will be a time to cook chickens and a suckling pig for them and the land gods.