chinese poem

yi wang er san li,

yan cun si wu jia,

man qian liu qi shu,

ba jiu shi zhi hua.

A Chinese classical poem by an anonymus person. Chinese children learn to sing this poem at school. I had also to learn it by heart and to recite it in my uni-class ;) I also found a nice recorded version. 

一望      yi1 wang4 - give a look

里        li3 - a Chinese unit of length

烟        yan1 - smoke from kitchen chimneys

村        cun1 - village

家        jia1 - household

亭台   ting2tai2 - pavilion

座       zuo4 - a Chinese measure word

枝       zhi1 - a Chinese measure word (for flowers)

花       hua1 - flowers