庆贺新春过大年，语拙却欲诵佳音：

青山展示千年画，绿水流弹万古琴；

鼠至猪辞祥兆起，功成运至瑞星临！

Greeting Spring Festival of the Year of Mouse

When a festival is coming, people greet each other. Many like to send their greetings by copying those from internet or what they received, seemingly without personal features. I now write a greeting in Chinese, of qilyu style, and put it into rhymed English lines to greet my friends, ushering in the New Year of Mouse. Several lines as a greeting may be cheap, but conveys from my heart the feelings deep!

Hailing Spring Fest, the lunar New Year’s Day,

Behold! Lasting paintings showed by green hills;

Listen! An eternal music by ripples in clear rills!

The year of mouse to replace that of pig is an omen,

The lucky star②insures you success every moment.

The New Year begins, be happiness in your hold,

Note：① lay，a song in poetic use as explained on page 986 in Longman Dictionary of English Language & Culture (English-Chinese); ② Here omitted is the word that, the relative pronoun used as the subject of the subordinate clause（See example by QI Xiaoyan, 2008:245）.

 

附：七律平仄分析：

庆贺新春过大年，仄仄平平仄仄平

语拙却欲诵佳音：平平仄仄仄平平

青山展示千年画，平平仄仄平平仄

绿水流弹万古琴；仄仄平平仄仄平

鼠至猪辞祥兆起，仄仄平平平仄仄

功成运至瑞星临！平平仄仄仄平平

一年肇始祈君乐，平平仄仄平平仄