Spring leisure When spring arrives, five or six gentlemen go with their servants to bathe in the river, frolic in the breeze and sing all the way home. Such was the model advocated by Confucius, usually as solemn as a dog at a funeral, and which came to be admired and practiced by generations of literati to follow.
暮春者，春服既成，冠者五六人，童子六七人，浴於沂，風乎舞雩，詠而歸﹘﹘這是經常「纍纍如喪家之犬」的孔老夫子，心嚮往之的悠閒境界，顯然為後代文人奠下理論基礎，欣然實踐。