1. The Yangtze River flows out of Xiling Gorge before entering the flat land. The water is surging and mighty. In the south, it converges with Yuanshui River and Xiangshui River, and in the north, it converges with Hanshui River, making the water potential more magnificent. When they reached the Red Cliff, the waves rolled like the sea. Zhang Mengde, Qinghe, was demoted to live in Qi'an, so he built a pavilion in the southwest of his house to watch the beautiful scenery of the Yangtze River. My brother Zizhan named this pavilion "Kuaizai Pavilion".
2. In the pavilion, you can see the Yangtze River hundreds of miles from north to south and thirty miles from east to west. The waves are rough and the wind and clouds are changeable. In the daytime, ships come and go in front of the pavilion; At night, ichthyosaurs wailed in the river under the pavilion. The scenery changes very quickly, which is appalling and cannot be appreciated for a long time. It is enough to look up when you can enjoy the scenery beside several cases. Looking westward at the mountains in Wuchang, you can see the winding and undulating mountains, rows of vegetation, vanishing in smoke and sunshine, and the houses of villagers who fish and gather firewood can be counted one by one. This is why the pavilion is called "Kuaizai". In the ruins of the ancient city on the bank of the Yangtze River, Cao Cao and Sun Quan are the places where Cao Cao and Sun Quan are the heroes, and Zhou Yu and Lu Xun are the places where Zhou Yu and Lu Xun galloped on the battlefield. Those inherited demeanors and deeds are also fast enough for the secular people.
3. Once upon a time, King Xiang of Chu asked Song Yu and Jing Chai to follow you to the Lantai Palace. A gust of wind blew and rustled. The King of Chu opened his shirt to the wind and said, "How pleasant the wind is! This is what I share with the people." Song Yu said, "This is just the majestic style of the king. How can the people enjoy it with you?" Song Yu's words might be ironic here. The wind has no difference between male and female, but people are born at the right time and at the wrong time. The reason why the King of Chu felt happy, and the reason why the people felt sad, was precisely because of the different circumstances of people. What does it matter to follow the trend? The scholar lives in the world. If he is not calm, then where is there no sorrow? If you have an open mind and don't hurt your nature (nature) because of foreign things, where can you not feel happy? (If a scholar lives in the world, if he cannot enjoy himself, where will he go without sorrow? If he is cheerful and does not hurt his mood because of the impact of the environment, where will he go without pleasure all day?)
4. Zhang Mengde didn't regard being demoted as a worry, and he used the official business of collecting money to release his body and mind in nature. This is what he should have in mind. Even weaving doors with tarpaulin and making windows with broken earthen pots, I didn't feel unhappy, let alone washing in the clear Yangtze River, facing the white clouds in the western mountains, enjoying the beautiful scenery from the comfort of the eyes and ears? If not, continuous peaks, deep and steep ravines, vast forests, towering ancient trees, wind blowing and swaying, bright moon shining, these are all scenes that sad and frustrated scholars and doctors feel sad and gaunt and can't bear. How can you see that this is happy!
5. On the first day of November in the sixth year of Yuanfeng, Su Zheji, Zhaojun County.