1. Shouting and screaming, interrupting the gentle rustling of the leaves that people like to listen to.
2. Crying while everyone’s trying to flowerview, thus taking everyone’s attention away from the viewing.
3. Laying mats on top of moss and ruining the mood, as it is symbolic for joy.
4. Chopping off a poplar’s drooping branches so that no one else can pick them.
5. Sun-drying one’s pantaloons amongst blooming flowers.
6. Bringing too many with you on a tour of spring, creating a racket.
7. Tying a harness to a stone pillar, because no one wants to see your horse.
8. Setting up a fire and taking away from the moon’s light, which people like to gaze at wistfully, and now they’re distracted.
9. A general walking on the ground instead of riding on a horse, indicating he returns in shame or defeat.
10. Putting a building on a mountain ridge, ruining the view with ghastly architecture.
11. Planting vegetables in a fruit orchard, where they don’t belong.
12. Raising fowl under a floral arbor, as they will ruin the arrangements.

Black clouds pressured the city, which threatened to collapse
When armor shone in sunlight, like golden scales revealed
Sounds of horns filled the sky, autumnal colors within
In the pass, soldier’s rouge congeals into night’s purple
Half-furled is the red banner, as the shore is approached
Snow falls heavy, drums muffled in the cold without swell
Repay imperial grace, said on the Golden Stage
Wield the Jade Dragon, fight to the death for the monarch

Youths don’t know the taste of sorrow, loving to ascend the pagoda.
Loving to ascend the pagoda, they force speeches of sorrow for new poetry’s sake.
And now, when they taste all there is about sorrow, they want to speak of it, but stop.
They want to speak of it, but stop, and only speak of it on a cool day of autumn!

When a scholar’s talent and virtue encompasses the nation, he is dubbed the nation’s scholar; when a woman’s beauty encompasses the nation, she is dubbed the nation’s beauty; when an orchid’s fragrance encompasses the nation, it is dubbed the nation’s fragrance. Since time immemorial, people have known of the noble orchid, not needing to wait for Chu’s exile of a subject, then reinstatement as nobility.

Orchid leaves in spring appear sumptuous
Osmanthus stems in autumn shine brightly
Exuberant is all this world’s life now
Matching the season, as is natural
Who could have known that mountain-perched hermits
Smell the wind in joy as they sit abreast?
The flowers and the trees have hearts as well
Why should one seek to cut off their beauty?