From: Su Shi's Answer to the Yellow Book in Song Dynasty
The original text is as follows:
Answer to Huang Lu Zhishen-Su Shi?
Nowadays, people insult books and are very respectful. If you see those people who are afraid, what is it?
The tester wants to give the first step, but he is afraid that he can't get it.
Translation:
Reading your letter today, I am respectful in manners and humble in attitude, as if I have met someone who scares you. Why bother? I've always wanted to make friends with your letters, but I'm afraid of being abrupt. Unexpectedly, when I received your letter, I could not help feeling a little ashamed.
Appreciate:
At the beginning of the first year of Yuanfeng in Song Shenzong (1078), Huang Tingjian, a professor at the Imperial Academy of Jingshi (a famous government in Northern Song Dynasty, now a famous government in Hebei Province), wrote a letter to Su Shi, a magistrate in Xuzhou, and attached two ancient prose to express his admiration for Su Shi. Su Shi expressed sympathy and wrote this letter. The letter details the feelings of reading Huang Tingjian's poems twice and praises the other party's detached and refined character.