Returning Home to Build a Courtyard, Quietly Drinking Tea, and Growing Old Together
The fast-paced city life and immense pressure make more people yearn for nature
When there's always money to be made, people can't grow old
Wait until the children are grown up, you can support yourselves
Find a quiet place with your lover to live your own little life
Tired for half a lifetime, you must let yourself take a good breath
After struggling for half a lifetime, your youthful dreams are gone
Then find a quiet place to build a house you like
Build a beautiful courtyard and spend the rest of your life with your lover…
No longer need to buy sky-high apartments
Design your own small house, with flowers and plants in front and behind
A small house is warmer than a luxurious interior
With your lover, even a simple stone house can be happy…
Red brick houses and old wooden houses can be very happy too....
Carefully create a beautiful courtyard, with sunshine and green trees
Life is so short, why let worries bind your steps? Busy and barren the years?
Standing in the tranquility, waiting for time to pass, only concerned with poetry and books in hand
Green vines cover the walls, sunshine is brilliant
With friends, quietly sitting in the courtyard chatting
That feeling is indescribable.
The courtyard doesn't need to be big, as long as it surrounds your home
You can plant all kinds of flowers and plants
Enclose yourself with a fence, covered in flowers and plants
Return to a simple life
Set up a tea room in the house
Work in the tea room
Read and drink tea
Days pass like this, one day after another
Happy and at ease
Tranquil afternoons, gazing at blue skies and white clouds
Holding a cup of tea, reading a good book, this is life
Rest on a chair in the courtyard
Smelling flowers and drinking tea, beside you is your lover
Time sediments the courtyard, the courtyard softens life
Decorate the courtyard
Invite your neighbors to have tea and chat
Sunset and rest, sunrise and rise
Cook the food you like, bask in the sun and take a walk
Just spend your days like this
You can raise a docile dog
To accompany you in enjoying the afternoon and guarding the courtyard
You can also raise chickens and ducks
When the children come back, catch one to stew an old soup
It will be delicious!
In youth, roses can only be raised in vases.
Now, you can plant your favorite flowers and plants in the courtyard
In this courtyard, you can be with your beloved
Spring to drink tea, autumn to sweep leaves
Summer to raise livestock, winter to burn firewood
One brick, one tile, one grass, one tree
One bowl of rice, one meal, shared with one person to drink tea and grow old
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, read and drink tea
In old age, you can enjoy this beautiful scenery, that's not wasting your youth
Perhaps decades later,
High-rise buildings and apartments will become more and more, such a small house will become less and less.
