Su Shi 蘇軾
1080 · Song China · Just arrived at his place of exile, after being jailed for his poems
I laugh at myself: all my life I have been kept busy by my mouth, and in old age my affairs have gone from bad to absurd.
自笑平生爲口忙，老來事業轉荒唐。"First Arrival in Huangzhou," in the Complete Song Poems
In the same thread
Su Shi 蘇軾
1096 · Song China · Exiled to Huizhou, in the far south
If I could eat three hundred lychees every day, I would not refuse to be a man of the far south for good.
日啖荔支三百顆，不辭長作嶺南人。"Eating Lychees," the second poem, in the Complete Song Poems
Samuel Pepys
September 4, 1666 · London, England · The third day of the Great Fire of London, with the flames coming near his house
And in the evening Sir W. Pen and I did dig another, and put our wine in it; and I my Parmazan cheese, as well as my wine and some other things.
Diary
Confucius 孔子
5th century BC · Lu, Spring and Autumn China · His pupils' record of the Master's habits at table
He did not dislike his rice finely polished, nor his raw meat cut thin.
食不厭精，膾不厭細。Analects, book 10 (Xiang Dang)
Su Shi 蘇軾
1085 · Song China
Beyond the bamboo, two or three sprays of peach blossom; when the spring river warms, the ducks are the first to know. Mugwort covers the ground and the reed shoots are short: just the season when the pufferfish come upstream.
竹外桃花三兩枝，春江水暖鴨先知。
蔞蒿滿地蘆芽短，正是河豚欲上時。"On Huichong's Painting of a Spring River at Evening"
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