译文及注释：
Translation:
The capital city of the Western Han Dynasty Chang'an was covered with dark clouds and Li Jue Guo Si and others caused trouble here. I reluctantly bid farewell to my hometown in the Central Plains and entrusted myself to the distant Jingman. Relatives shed tears as they saw me off and friends clung to the carriage unwilling to part. As I walked out the door all I saw was desolation with only piles of white bones covering the outskirts. A hungry woman sat by the roadside with a hungry look on her face gently placing her child in the grass. The baby's cries tore at the mother's heart and lungs and the hungry woman couldn't help but look back but eventually shed tears and walked away alone. I don't even know where I will die who can save both me and my child? Before she finished speaking I quickly rode away unable to bear listening to these heartbreaking words. As I climbed the high ground of Baling I continued south but when I looked back I gazed at Chang'an the capital of the Western Han Dynasty. I understood the feelings of the poet of the poem Xia Quan who missed the wise emperor and couldn't help but feel sad and sigh.
Annotations:
- Chang'an: Refers to the capital city of the Western Han Dynasty. After the chaos caused by Dong Zhuo Emperor Xian of Han was moved from Luoyang to Chang'an.
- Wuxiang: Without order or system.
- Chaihu: Refers to Li Jue Guo Si and other generals under Dong Zhuo.
- Guohuan: Causing disasters for the people.
- Zhongguo: The Central Plains region.
- Weishen: To place oneself.
- Jingman: Refers to Jingzhou. In ancient times people from the Central Plains referred to the southern ethnic groups as man and Jingzhou was located in the south hence the term Jingman. Many people fled to Jingzhou to escape the war. Liu Biao the governor of Jingzhou had a close relationship with Wang Can's grandfather Wang Chang and Wang Can sought refuge with him.
- Zhuipan: Clinging and unwilling to part.
- Wan: To save.
- Baling: The tomb of Emperor Wen of Han located in present-day Chang'an County Shaanxi Province. An: High slope or hill. Emperor Wen of Han was the most famous emperor during the 400 years of the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties. The social order during this period was relatively stable and the economy developed rapidly. Therefore Wang Can contrasts this with the current reality to express his feelings.
- Xia Quan: A title of a poem in the Book of Songs believed by scholars of the Han Dynasty to be a poem expressing the longing of the people of Cao for their wise king. Xia Quan refers to underground springs.
- Kui Ran: A sorrowful appearance. The last four lines of the poem express the author's feelings when facing Emperor Wen of Han.