“Recalling the Past at Mianchi with Ziyou” is a work by Su Shi, a writer in the Song Dynasty. This poem expresses the melancholy of the uncertainty of life and the deep affection for the past. The first four lines use the footprints of wild geese in the snow and mud to compare life, and regard life as a long journey; the last four lines echo the title of “nostalgia” and use narrative to deepen the feeling of the footprints of wild geese in the snow and mud. The whole poem is turbulent and lively, with a free artistic conception, and is a famous poem among Su Shi’s seven-character regulated verses.
《和子由渑池怀旧》是宋代文学家苏轼的作品。此诗表达对人生来去无定的怅惘和往事旧迹的深情眷念。前四句以雪泥鸿爪比喻人生，把人生看作漫长的征途；后四句照应“怀旧”诗题，以叙事之笔，深化雪泥鸿爪的感触。全诗动荡明快，意境恣逸，是苏轼七律中的名篇。
《和子由渑池怀旧》 苏轼
人生到处知何似？应似飞鸿踏雪泥：
泥上偶然留指爪，鸿飞哪复计东西！
老僧已死成新塔，坏壁无由见旧题。
往日崎岖还记否：路长人困蹇驴嘶。
Recalling the Old Days at Mianchi
Su Shi
To what can we liken human life?
Perhaps to a wild swan’s footprints on mud or snow:
By chance its claws imprint the mud
Before it flies off at random, east or west.
The old monk is dead and a new pagoda built;
The old wall has crumbled, the poem we wrote on it gone.
Do you still remember this rugged mountain path,
The long way, or exhaustion and how the lame donkey brayed?
