蘇軾《除夜訪子野食燒芋戱作》“Written in jest on a visit to Ziye on the New Year's Eve when [we] had some roasted taro” by Su Shi (1037-1101)

松風溜溜作春寒，

伴我饑腸響夜䦨。

牛糞火中燒芋子，

山人更喫懶殘殘。

The wind rustles through pine trees in the spring chill,

Accompanying my empty stomach growling in the deepening night.

In a cow dung fire, taro is roasted;

[A] mountain man dines on the leftovers of a lazybones’ leftovers. [1]

* From Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101), Su Shi buzhu 蘇詩補注, Yingyin Wenyuange Siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 1987) edition, vol. 1111, 48.12a-b.

[1] With a word play on lancan 懶殘 (lazybones’ leftovers), the poet (the “mountain man”) mocks himself while poking fun at his friend (the “lazybones”) who offered him roasted taro. This friend, as indicated in the title, is Zhang Xian 張先 (990-1078, courtesy name Ziye). Lancan, which also reads “Leftover Lazybones”, was a sobriquet of Monk Mingzan 明瓚 (fl. mid-8th century). It is said that he once granted a young man a decade’s career as prime minister when taking his taro from the fire.

Detail of "Suizhao baoxi tu" 歲朝報喜圖, hanging scroll by Song Xu 宋旭 (b. 1525)

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