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 Green (次韻李侍郞又以前韻詠黃紅靑三色見寄。皆押旁韻。 詠靑)次韻李侍郞又以前韻詠黃紅靑三色見寄。皆押旁韻。 詠靑
燎烟侵畢瓚。新簡好裝經。錢重價難滿。苽甘名更形。莎將氊布岸。荷作傘欹汀。柳線搖還亂。茶塵碾自零。風恬不起漢。天靜尙無星。蘇子井華盌。梁君碁子屛。身遊蓮界晚。魂入玉壺醒。未擬歸藘板。方謀向笋庭。朝紳紆尙罕。史牒汗誰停。鬪草戱爭翫。伏蒲言必銘。毿毿孔墮翰。翐翐翠搖翎。官盖期容閈。童衣漏赦刑。岫螺山對觀。簷雀舫歸溟。天遣藜燃爛。仙因飢養靈。鏤華堪賁管。銅炤不勞硎。心示援松慣。詩嫌誦麥聽。槐淘宜暑館。竹葉稱寒甁。帝化崇文煥。申之色尙靑。
The green smoke of the torch seeps even into the jade cup, and new bamboo slips are good for dressing the classics. Green coins are heavy, and it is hard to make up their worth; the green melon is sweet, and its name is the more made known. Turf spreads over the slope like a blanket, and lotus leaves become parasols leaning over the shoal. Willow threads sway and are tangled again, and tea powder, ground fine, falls of itself. The wind is still, so there is no ripple in the blue sky; the heavens are clear, so there are not yet any stars. Master Su's (蘇子) bowl of first-drawn well water, and Lord Liang's (梁君) screen of go stones. The body roams in the lotus world until dusk, and the soul enters the jade bottle and wakes. I have no thought yet of going back to the madder-dyed plank, and I am just now planning to go to the courtyard where bamboo shoots have sprung up. Those at court who wear the green seal-cord are still few, and who would stop the firing of green bamboo slips? We vie and take pleasure in the grass-fighting game, and words offered while prostrate on the rush mat are surely engraved. The trailing plumes of the peacock fall, and with a flutter the kingfisher shakes its feathers. The green parasol of the government office appoints the day for entering the village, and the child in green clothes gave warning of the amnesty beforehand. I look across at mountain peaks like conch shells, and the green sparrow boat at the eaves returns to the sea. Heaven sends a staff of goosefoot and lights the fire brightly, and the immortal nurtures his numen in the midst of hunger. The engraved pattern is fit to adorn a brush handle, and the bronze mirror needs no grinding on the whetstone. The heart shows well its old habit of drawing the pine near, and the poem is loath to hear the song of barley. The shade of the locust tree suits a house for passing the heat, and bamboo-leaf wine befits a cold bottle. The ruler's teaching shines in honoring letters, so I say it again: among colors, the green is honored.
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梁簡□□□□碧慮碁子屛風啓其□□□□天台之翠塵。
Liang Jian (梁簡)□□□□, in a piece on the screen of green go stones, said that its □□□□ was green dust from Mount Tiantai (天台山).
毛詩。縞衣茹藘。註云。茹蒐也。又云。茹藘在板。
The Mao Odes (毛詩) says, "Madder upon a white robe," and the commentary says, "Yeo (茹) is madder." It also says, "The madder is on the plank."
靑蠅爲靑衣童。漏赦於市。
A blowfly became a child in green clothes and gave warning of the amnesty in the marketplace beforehand.
梁元帝詠船名詩云。簷知靑雀歸。
Emperor Yuan of Liang's (梁元帝) poem "Singing of the Names of Boats" says, "The eaves know that the green sparrow has come back."
道家。以楊桐染飯。色靑。號靑節飯。食之資陽氣。
Among the Daoists it is said that when rice is dyed with the leaves of the yangdong (楊桐) its color is green; this is called "green-joint rice" (靑節飯), and that eating it aids the yang force.
梁紀幼場夢。陸倕以靑鏤管筆一束與之。
In a dream of Ji Youchang (紀幼場) of the Liang, Lu Chui (陸倕) gave him a bundle of brushes with green engraved tubes.