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冻雨洒窗，东二点（冻）西三点（洒）
切瓜分片，上七刀（切）下八刀（分）
—Icy drops are splashed on windows, two dots on the “east” and three dots on the “west”;
—A melon is cut into pieces, seven cuts upwards and eight cuts downwards.
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鸿是江边鸟 (鸿)
蚕为天下虫 (蚕)
Swans are birds by the riverside;
Silkworms are insects under the heaven.
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一明分日月 （明）
五岳各丘山 （岳）
One brightness comes from sun and moon;
Five sacred mountains stand with individual ones.
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此木为柴山山出（柴、出）
因火成烟夕夕多（烟、多）
This kind of wood is called firewood and can be found on all hills;
Smoke comes from fire and gets thicker and thicker by sunset.
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古木枯, 此木成柴（枯、柴）
女子好, 少女更妙（好、妙）
The old wood gets rotten, and it will turn into the firewood;
A woman is good, and a young girl will be much better.
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踏破磊桥三块石（磊）
分开出路两重山（出）
I walked tore open on the three rocks of a stony bridge,
and fought a way out throught the two mountains ahead.
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嫁得潘家郎，有田有米有水（潘）
娶来何门女，添人添口添丁（何）
Get married to a boy from the PAN’s family, he has got land, rice and water;
Get married to a girl from the HE’s family, she will foster babies, mouths and descendants.
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口十心思，思乡，思友，思父母（思）
言身寸谢，谢天，谢地，谢君王（谢）
With mouth and heart for thinking, we always think of our hometowns, friends and parents;
With words and body for thanksgiving, we often give thanks to Heaven, Land and Lord.
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张长弓，骑奇马，单戈作战（张、骑、战）
嫁家女，孕乃子，生男曰甥（嫁、孕、甥）
The warrior unfolded a long bow, rode on a magic horse, and fought with a single dagger-axe;
The daughter married and got pregnant for a son, the boy she gave birth to was my nephew.
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人曾是僧人,弗能成佛（僧、佛）
女卑为婢女,又可称奴（婢、奴）
The person who used to be a monk can’t make a Buddha;
The women drudges who worked as servant women were called slaves too.
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寸土为寺（寺），寺旁言寺（诗），诗曰：明月送僧归古寺。
双木为林（林），林下示禁（禁），禁云：斧斤以时入山林。
An inch of land stands a temple, beside which a poem is inscribed, the poem goes:
“The bright moon sees the monk back to the ancient temple.”
Double trees makes a bush, under which is set a caution board, the caution goes:
“Axes and saws enter the hills and forests only at the appropriate time.” |