Matching the Rhymes of the Poems Vice Minister (侍郞) Yi Sent, Again in the Former Rhymes, Singing of the Three Colors Yellow, Red, and Green, All Set to Side Rhymes — Singing of the Yellow (次韻李侍郞又以前韻詠黃紅靑三色見寄。皆押旁韻。 詠黃)次韻李侍郞又以前韻詠黃紅靑三色見寄。皆押旁韻。 詠黃
柘衣親廟瓚。囊寶秘神經。禮士臺中滿。調元鼎上形。菊開霜曉岸。葦折露秋汀。稻穗蝦鬚亂。槐英鼠耳零。濁河通上漢。光道度明星。鵝殼頻傾盌。羊燈正炤屛。鸎尋花校晚。蜂唼酒還醒。嫣彈長遺板。衡柑偶落庭。色絲詞絶罕。金縷唱何停。元吉文堪翫。中庸德可銘。全成搏黍翰。深讓竊脂翎。龜印榮生閈。雞竿詔放刑。閽袍司內觀。貢橘渡重溟。龍負圖呈爛。雀含環表靈。坎玄歸所管。震碧似將硎。楊厄曾聞慣。竹歌那忍聽。淪泥塗寺館。隨鍍賁甖甁。雌閣揭名煥。何憂不史靑。
Robed in mountain-mulberry yellow, he goes before the shrine and takes up the jade cup, and as a treasure in his pouch he has hidden a numinous scripture. Honoring scholars, they fill the Terrace of Yellow Gold (黃金臺), and it is the figure of a chief minister blending the flavors above the cauldron. Chrysanthemums bloom on the frosted slope at dawn, and reeds are broken at the dew-wet autumn shoal. Rice ears are tangled like shrimp whiskers, and locust blossoms fall like the ears of mice. The muddy Yellow River runs through to the River of Heaven, and the Yellow Road (黃道) passes the bright stars. Wine of a gosling's color I tip often into the bowl, and the golden sheep lamp lights the screen brightly. The oriole seeks the flowers a little late, and the bee, sucking at the wine, comes sober again. Lovely playing left the beating-board behind for long, and a tangerine weighed on the scales happens to fall in the yard. Exquisite phrases are exceedingly rare, and how should the song "Robe of Golden Threads" (金縷衣) ever cease? The text that says "greatly auspicious" is worth savoring, and the virtue of the Doctrine of the Mean (中庸) is worth engraving. It has wholly made up the oriole's plumage, and deeply it yields to the plumes of the jeolji (竊脂). The golden tortoise seal brings glory to the village, and the golden cock pole, by edict, looses men from punishment. The gown of the Yellow Gate (黃門) takes charge of the duties within, and the tribute tangerines come across the folded seas. The dragon came bearing the chart on its back and offered it in splendor, and the sparrow held a ring in its beak and showed forth its numen. The black of Kan (坎) returns to what it governs, and the green of Zhen (震) seems about to be ground on the whetstone. Of the boxwood's affliction in the intercalary month I have long heard tell, and how could I bear to hear the "Song of Yellow Bamboo" (黃竹歌)? Steeped in mud, it plasters the halls of temples, and following the gilding it adorns jars and bottles. His name hung up at the Jagak (雌閣) shines, so why worry that he may not go up in the green history?
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陰陽有黃囊經。
Among the yin-yang masters there is the "Classic of the Yellow Pouch" (黃囊經).
黃河與天漢通。
The Yellow River (黃河) runs through to the River of Heaven.
漢書。黃道一名光道。
In the Book of Han (漢書) the Yellow Road (黃道) is called by another name the Road of Light (光道).
金羊澄。
It is a golden sheep lamp.
毛詩。黃鳥于飛。註云。搏。黍鳥也。
The Mao Odes (毛詩) says, "The yellow bird flies," and the commentary says, "Bak (搏) is the millet bird (黍鳥)."
竊脂。桑扈也。斑文鳥。
The jeolji (竊脂) is the sangho (桑扈). It is a bird with mottled markings.
金龜印。
It is a golden tortoise seal.
黃門人衣色。
It is the color of the clothes worn by the people of the Yellow Gate (黃門).
五行相克。
This is the five phases overcoming one another.
人民凍死。作黃竹歌。
When the people froze to death, he composed the "Song of Yellow Bamboo" (黃竹歌).
色絲 — a play made by splitting apart the characters for "yellow silk" (黃絹), used to say "exquisite." — Translator