Chinese New Year poem (5)

Chinese New Year poems are the poems Chinese poets wrote about Chinese New Year. Chinese poets have written many Chinese New Year poems. On the website, you can read some of the best Chinese New Year poems. The poems are put in separate articles. Each article contains the Chinese version of one Chinese New Year poem and its’ English translation. You can copy the Chinese versions of the Chinese New Year poems and use them in your own documents if you want.
Through the Chinese New Year poems, you can know more about how Chinese celebrate Chinese New Year.

元日 玉楼春
（宋）毛滂
一年滴尽莲花漏，碧井屠苏沉冻酒。
晓寒料峭尚欺人，春态苗条先到柳。
佳人重劝千长寿，柏叶椒花芬翠袖。
醉乡深处少相知，只与东君偏故旧。

Translation
Chinese New Year Day: The spring in the Jade Mansion
Poet: Mao Tuo of Song dynasty

The old year has dropped away in the lotus funnel (a kind of time meter made of copper),
The Tusu is being cooled in the well.
The coldness in the early morning is still hard,
But the spring has arrived to the slim willow branches.
The beautiful kabukis propose more drink and wish me longevity,
Their cuffs have the aromatic smells of the cedar leaves and zhanthoxylum bungeanum flowers.
In the deep drunk dream I know few, but the Spring God is my old friend.

The morning of the Chinese New Year Day was still cold, but the willow branches were already green. The poet drank whole night with beautiful kabukis. The Tusu wine for the Chinese New Year Day had been prepared. The poet was drunk and sleepy. He wanted to meet spring wind in his dream. It is a cozy Chinese New Year poem.

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