Pass By A Hundred Households On This Ferry: Four Four-Line Poems: No. 1
过 百 家 渡： 四 绝 句
出 得 城 来 事 事 幽
涉 湘 半 济 值 渔 舟。
也 知 渔 父 趁 鱼 急
翻 着 春 衫 不 裹 头。
Guo Bai Jia Du : Si Jue Ju
Chu de cheng lai shi shi you
She xiang ban ji zhi yu zhou.
Ue zhi yu fu chen yu ji
Fan zhao chun shan bu guo tou.
Pass By A Hundred Households On This Ferry: Four Four-Line Poems: No. 1
Arrive outside the city walls, everything quiet and secluded
Halfway through fording the Xiang River, we met a fishing boat.
The old fisherman quickly held up the fish he had caught
Wearing an unlined shirt for spring, in his haste he forgot to bring along his head bandana.