Picture credit: National Palace Museum, Taipei
珠露攢成白玉毬，
蓬池春盎望仙儔。
妍姿團簇眾芳繼，
縞袂翻風下十洲。[1]
立春三候望春
Pearly dews join each other to make a white jade ball,
At the pond of Peng[lai],[2] spring in full swing: what a vision of immortal companions.
Elegant figures clustering together, the host of flowers follow one another,
Silky white sleeves fluttering in the wind [as they] descend from the Ten Lands.[3]
The third pentad after Spring Commences: gazing-spring [4]
江鄉春仲菜花黃，
老圃生涯始艷陽。
迴憶甲辰泊平望，
清香兩岸送輕航。
雨水一候菜花
In the riverside village, mid-spring, rapeseed flowers turn yellow,
And the old garden’s life awakes under the blazing sun.
[I] recall mooring at Pingwang in the jiachen year [1784/85],[5]
[Their] pure fragrance along the two banks seeing off [our] light boat.
The first pentad after Rain Water: rapeseed
[1] Coloured characters rhyme. [2] Penglai is a legendary island where immortals live. [3] In Daoist legends, shi zhou 十洲 (Ten Lands) refers to the ten mountains in the sea where immortals dwell. The term is also a metaphor for the realm of immortals. [4] Wangchun now often refers to wangchun yulan 望春玉兰 (Magnolia biondii), whereas the plant in the image is clearly not a magnolia. The National Palace Museum, Taipei identifies it as xiuqiu 繡球 (Hydrangea), a species of white hortensia; cf. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=115977. [5] Pingwang is a town in modern Jiangsu province. This line refers to Jiaqing’s (who was not yet the heir apparent in 1784/85) experience of accompanying Qianlong Emperor 乾隆 (1711-1799, ruling 1735-1796) in his sixth inspection tour to southern China.
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