Ten Separate Poems of Levee Partitioned Fields: No. 1
圩 丁 词 十 解
何 代 何 人 作 此 圩？
石 顽 土 腻 铁 难 如！
年 年 二 月 桃 花 水
如 律 流 归 石 臼 湖。
Wei Ding Ci Shi Jie
He dai he ren zuo ci wei?
Shi wan tu ni tie nan ru!
Nian nian er yue tao hua shui
Ru lu liu gui shi jiu hu.
Ten Poems of Levee Partitioned Fields: No. 1
Which people arrived to make these levees?
With persistence, they mix rock and earth to become strong as steel!
Every year, during the second lunar month, peach blossoms fall upon the river water
Mortared rocks turn the flows into a lake.