Presentation Address (致語) and Recited Verse (口號) of the Music Bureau (敎坊) on the Night of Lanterns (燈夕) at the First Full Moon of the Jeongsa Year丁巳年上元燈夕。敎坊致語口號。

And so forth. Reading the airs and divining by the clouds, we knew that a sage was to arise; and laden with auspicious things, bearing portents in our carts, we have come from afar out of the office of the immortals. I humbly consider that His Majesty the Holy Sovereign is matched in his Way to the joining of the Three and has risen in his virtue to the embracing of the Five. He gives shade beneath the trees to those stricken by the heat, so that the age longs for the benevolence of King Wu of Zhou; he sets wine jars out at the crossroads, so that the people sing of the governance of Gaotang (高唐). He rules the land east of the Fusang tree (扶桑) and is seated in the capital on the pine-clad slope. Because the main chamber (正寢) of the Bright Hall (明堂) had not yet been repaired, he had long been dwelling in detached halls and secondary palaces; now, with the Soaring Simurgh (翔鸞) on the left and the Roosting Phoenix (棲鳳) on the right, the old foundations have been made new, and driving four blue serpent-dragons and six white hornless dragons, with the full array of the state carriage (法駕), he has entered in. It being just the evening of the first full moon, he has spread wide the ceremony of the grand music: the sound of the pipes of the Eight Governances and the Six Directions floats upon the music of Heaven, and the shadows of the lanterns, whose nine lights shine on all four sides, are as brilliant as the patterns of the stars. He lets the hundred entertainments be offered up in their turns and takes his pleasure together with the ten thousand people, so that gods and men congratulate one another and barbarian and Chinese alike submit. Our names stand on the Cinnabar Terrace (丹臺) and our bodies are lodged in the crimson palace. Though we make rain at Gaotang, we are not the immortals of the Wu Gorge (巫峽); and in offering peaches at the palace of Han we humbly imitate the Queen Mother of the West on the Tortoise Terrace (龜臺). Together with this we offer the recited verse, drawn with reference to the songs of the people. And so forth.

The array of the state carriage stands ranged before the painted hill, and jade towers and pearl halls have opened the three heavens. The phoenix lanterns spit out their flames, and silver flowers gather; the toad's moon comes full circle, and the jade mirror is round. A fragrant wind of ten li steeps the brocades, and in the spring light of the ninefold palace the immortals grow drunk. On the dew-catching tray a divine peach is newly offered, and we ask that the year of fruit-setting may come round again.