Lantian smoky ball forest comes from Huang Tingjian's "The Second Rhyme Answers to Zhang Shahe" in Song Dynasty. The original sentence is that there is elegance in the brow, and smoke in Lantian gives birth to a ball forest. Here, the ball and the forest are both the names of Meiyu, which also refer to Meiyu in general. Metaphor is a gift. This sentence means that the brow can show the elegance of the literati. As beautiful and precious as the jade in Lantian.
Brief introduction of Huang Tingjian:
Huang Tingjian, the son of Huang Shu, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the father of Huang Xiang, a doctor in the Southern Song Dynasty. The eldest son of the Northern Song Dynasty, the protagonist of the story of "washing relatives and drowning" in "Twenty-four Filial Pieties". A famous writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, the founder of Jiangxi Poetry School. Huang Tingjian has made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. Huang Tingjian, Chao and Qin Guan all studied in Su Shi's school, collectively known as "Su Men Four Bachelor".
Huang Tingjian's poems are called "valley style" by Su Shi. Huang Tingjian's calligraphy is unique and unique. He is as famous as Su Shi, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang in the Northern Song Dynasty, and is known as "Song Sijia" by the world. In the literary world, Huang Tingjian is as famous as Su Shi and is called "Su Huang". He is the author of "Valley Ci" and "Collected Works of Mr. Huang".
Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Huang Tingjian