Ancient poems about winter greetings:
1. Ask Liu Shijiu
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
Green Ant New Fermented Wine, Red Small clay stove.
It’s snowing in the evening, can you have a drink?
Interpretation: My newly brewed rice wine has not yet been filtered. There is a layer of green bubbles on the surface of the wine and the aroma is fragrant. A small stove made of red clay for scalding wine is also ready. The sky is gloomy and it looks like it's going to snow tonight. Can you stay and have a drink with me?
2. Jiang Xue
Tang Dynasty: Liu Zongyuan
Thousands of mountains and birds flew away, and thousands of people disappeared.
A man in a lone boat with a coir raincoat fishing fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.
Interpretation: On all the mountains, the birds have disappeared, and all the roads have no trace of people. On a lone boat on the river, an old man wearing a hat was fishing alone on the cold river covered with heavy snow.
3. Facing the Snow
Tang Dynasty: Gao Pian
When the six flying flowers come into the house, sit and watch the green bamboos turn into green branches.
Now I can go up to a tall building and look out, covering all the evil roads in the world.
Interpretation: Snowflakes fluttered into the window. I sat in front of the window and watched the green bamboo turn into as white as jade. At this time, I happened to go up to the high building and look into the distance. All the dangerous forks in the world were covered with heavy snow.
4. Homesickness on the night of the winter solstice in Handan
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
On the winter solstice in Handan’s post office, the figures in front of the lanterns hugging one’s knees accompany me.
I want to sit at home late at night and talk about people traveling far away.
Explanation: It happened to be the Winter Solstice when I stayed at the Handan Inn. At night, I hugged my knees and sat in front of the lamp, with only my shadow accompanying me. I believe that my relatives at home will get together late into the night today, and they should also be talking about me, a traveler from afar.
5. The master who stayed at Furong Mountain during the snow
Tang Dynasty: Liu Changqing
At dusk, the mountains are far away, the weather is cold and the white house is poor.
Chaimen hears dogs barking, and people return home on a snowy night.
Interpretation: When dusk falls and the mountains are vast, the journey becomes more and more distant. When the weather gets colder, the thatched house looks poorer.
The sound of dogs barking suddenly came from outside Chaimen. It turned out to be someone returning home in the wind and snow.