去年今日此门中,人面桃花相映红。人面不知何处去,桃花依旧笑春风。 · This very day last year,oh,at this very place,| A pretty face outshone the blossoms of peach trees. | I do not know today where shines the pretty face; | Only the pretty blossoms still smile in vernal breeze.· On this day last year what a party were we! | Pink cheeks and pink peach-blossoms smiled upon me; | But alas the pink cheeks are now far far away,| Though the peach-blossoms smile as they smiled on that day. (Cui Hu [?-831]: “Written in a Village South of the Capital”) |