endless happiness (idiom)

go visiting one's relatives

spring trees and suset clouds

In despair

Chang Yang dates

weeding out weeds and killing the birds without mercy

Scant oneself in food and clothes

insect's legs and rat's liver--worthless things or infinitesimal parts of creation

try to tie the sun with a long rope--wish that the time could pass away slowly

mutual gifts of illicit lovers

annihilate enemy force and overrun their positions

to one's amazement

pass round the cups and glasses

Look after others

Cui Yu Ming Ming

serve and learn from the master with reverence

have the gates reinforced and night watchmen patrol the courtyard

worries of a young woman in love

fill the stomach

make all manner of quips and jokes