行遊。
I know I will not live for long, therefore I have to play at night with the candles lit. A song sungby the Zhou emperor, who died three years after being enthroned.
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隋煬帝夢二豎子歌
隋書五行志上
住亦死。 去亦死。 未若乘船度江水。
The second emperor of Sui dynasty dreaming of two children singing to him: staying or going, either way you will die. You might as well go across the river by boat. He was murdered soon after this dream.
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大業中童謠
隋書五行志上
桃李子。 鴻鵠遶陽山。 宛轉花林裡。 莫浪語。 誰道許。
A children’s song during the Da Yei era. It is about the activities of certain warlords during this time.
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長孫覽求為周宣帝歌
隋書刑法志
朝亦醉。 暮亦醉。 日日恆常醉。 政事日無次。
Chang Sun Lan Qiu sang a song about Emperor Xuan Di of Zhou: He is constantly drunk and never really attends to government affairs. Chang Sun Lan Qiu was beaten to death by order of the emperor because of this song.
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唐史官引諺語論冀州
隋書地理志中
仕官不偶遇冀部。
魏郡清河。 天公無奈何。
Since people from Ji Zhou banded together and protected one another, it was bad for an official to confront anyone from there. Wei Jun and Qing He both had a very bad atmosphere in terms of their residents’ indulgence in luxurious lifestyles.
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汩羅土人為屈原歌
隋書地理志下
何由得渡湖。How can we cross the lake? This phrase in a song is referring to the dragon boat festival on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the lunar calendar.
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唐史官引梁世諺論史職
隋書經籍志
上車不落﹑則著作。 體中何如﹑則秘書。
Words describing a government historian as someone who would sit on the job and do not much.
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時人為劉昉鄭譯語
隋書劉昉傳
劉昉牽前。 鄭譯推後。
Liu Fang became prominent first in the imperial court and then Zheng Yi became the second after him.
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