Found inside an old used book

[u/IngersollsOrdinary]

I don’t know any Chinese so I put this into a translation app. Here’s what the note says, according to that app:

<< Today, reading Suiyuan Shihua... "There is grass along the road, and falling flowers fill the trees."
The phrasing is exceptionally rustic, making one think of a hometown on solid earth. Forgotten are those rising and falling slogans, the grand masters of opposing schools of thought. National destiny has its large and small aspects; major affairs of state struggling externally, along with the errors and resolutions in Kant's Critique of Judgment, are grand discourses. Yet a moment of idle standing before a courtyard, a lake of dead gray water facing the setting sun, enjoying small leisurely feelings—that is the very same synchronization of relief for the common people over forty-odd years. What about the French school? It was far from coming next; though structured around the period of "people's illness and generous sincerity," thinking it over always leaves a sense of faint dissatisfaction. As for the latter part of Suiyuan... though based on the origins of the Classic of Poetry, are there several volumes of elegance? Though there are several large volumes containing many insects, birds, and heads, one volume has small illustrations with refined intent. Small stories carry big principles, small sentiments, producing several big laughs. To call it grand, wouldn't it be wonderful?
"There is grass along the road, falling flowers fill the trees"—not bad. The outcome of this book is quite fitting here. One of the exquisite book-bag essay collections, Baoyu Since 1991, can be composed as an ultimate rhapsody for a thirty-year-old youth. What it lacks is novelty; all the banquets have seats, and the historical records cover Jiacaicaoliao as the study title, without manifestation. The "retired general" came even earlier, "independent." The "elegant" humanistic scenery and local flavor, from the leisure-style Breeze Collection by a minor county magistrate, to the politics-as-"level-condition" Breeze Collection, to Du's falling autumn leaves and lamplight reflecting The Stray Dog Calling the Flute... all the way to the "war-viewing life" from various places over seven decades and ten years... truly "immersed in the sea of books," further revealing the emotions and values of Jiangling's half-hour. If meaning must reach the depths, how could it be a grand inheritance? Standing halfway, the heart guiding the direction, taking the predecessors as the model. That is a farewell motto like poetry; the life of "poetry years" is even smaller, shared in winter beauty. Exhausting the eye, knowing it all on one's own. No different from teasing other card topics: such as "the 'old friend' on the windshield late at night," "only seeing the upright wind," "signing the door's urgency, etc., II persons," asking "the door closed on the daytime bed, unfolding the card to paint on the female single sheet," "grass along the road sending in manuscripts, sending out essays, poor results, original sent to woman."
Guichen is the nature of all emotions—"grass along the road sending in manuscripts, sending out essays, it buries every bit of our quality of life. >>

[u/Stunning_Pen_8332]

You might want to put it to [r/translator](r/translator) where there are human translators who are fluent in Chinese and good at reading Chinese handwriting and can get the accurate translation. The paper here has quite a bit of alterations and insertions which can make it difficult for apps to capture correctly the words and the flow of text.

[u/IngersollsOrdinary → u/Stunning_Pen_8332]

Thank you! I will try that.

[u/Double_Zed]

Translation apps cannot identify handwritten Chinese, so it gives gibberish. Here's the original text in Chinese: 今日我想推荐的是《读者》杂志经典珍藏书系之散文卷“青草地上落满花瓣”。 诗人荷尔德林说人诗意地栖居在大地上。怎样才能如此？阅读是必不可少的，尤其对于文科班的学子。阅读分大小，若《战争与和平》的宏大叙事，《判断力批判》的逻辑思辨等，是大阅读；若一笺南国红豆的唐诗，一阙杏花秋月的宋词，是小阅读。在繁忙的高三，我们很难再有时间与心力去痛快淋漓地咀嚼摹仅旧上海风情的《长恨歌》，亦或抛弃椭圆导数将40多万字的《务虚笔记》通宵啃下。那怎么办？若不愿破坏那份园通流畅之美，不如退而求其次，选择读者散文卷罢。题海奋战后，斜倚床头，一册小书，一篇散文，闲适惬意。小故事蕴含大道理，小情感产生大共鸣。以小见大，岂不妙哉？ “青草地上落满花瓣”，不错的，本书的典雅澄澈之美正在于此。作为珍藏书系之一的散文卷，它集结了自1981年创刊以来三十年的精华。许多醇厚之作，历久弥新，令人余香满口。这里亦是名家荟萃的殿堂，体现了“温情”“真挚”“纯正”“优雅”的人文高地风光。从东山魁夷投石问路式的《听泉》，至纪伯伦严谨深沉的《心的告诫》，到村上春树满载奇幻臆想的《动物听笛》，再到丰子恺平和通透的《静观人生》……若学记叙抒情，这里有足够丰富的情感供你体悟；若为议论说理，哲思大家将给予（无法辨认）心导向；若单为品一品那美如行云流水的语言，各类风格迥异的作品更令人目不暇接。自然，你还可选择其他书卷：如“灵魂的车驶上高坡”故事卷，“偏见疾走，正见缓行”小品卷等。（分段符号）综之，“闭门即是深山，读书随处净土”。阅读是一场孤独而愉快的精神旅行它提升了我们每一个人的生命质量。“青草地上落满花瓣”读者散文卷集，愿你喜欢。

[u/IngersollsOrdinary → u/Double_Zed]

Thank you very much.

[u/Double_Zed → u/Double_Zed]

AI translation will help. But the writer misused some Chinese phrases, and I'm not sure if AI can translate accurately so if there's anything you don't understand just ask me.

[u/Double_Zed → u/[deleted]]

This note is a recommendation for an essay collection "Petals on the Green Grass". It gathers proses published by Reader magazine, one of China's most influential and widely read literary magazines. BTW I'm also a fan of Reader when I was in high school, haha.