take deep roots

Grave incidents

come to pieces(fall apart)

one's childhood hometown(one's native village)

As thin as a thread-paper

poetry in painting

be abominated even by gods and demons

The mountain falls and the earth gives way.

carry all before one

simple fare and coarse clothes

in the streets and markets

not to take a second course of meat

prosperity and decline(glory and humiliation; Fortune's wheel)

selfish considerations

cross the seas and climb up the mountains

rise and fall(ups and downs)

with half an eye

one’s resolve is unshaken(pledge to be true to death)

be able to do mental and manual labour

in small groups