Poetry of cold food

The poetry of the Cold Food Festival is that catkins are flying all over the sky in Chang 'an in late spring, and the east wind of the Cold Food Festival blows the willow branches of the imperial garden. As night falls, the palace is busy distributing candles, and the light smoke from lighting candles is scattered into the homes of princes and nobles.

The original text is: the spring city is full of flowers, and the cold food is easterly and willows are oblique. As night fell, the palace was busy lighting candles, and smoke drifted to the house of the prince and the marquis.

Cold Food is a poem written by Han Yi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The first two sentences of this poem describe the scenery during the day, the charming spring scenery and the scenery of the whole court garden in Chang 'an. The last two sentences are about the night scene, which vividly draws a picture of candles at night, making people see the light of candles and smell the faint smoke. The whole poem is realistic by line drawing, depicting the royal style, full of intoxication of the spring scenery of the imperial capital and singing of Chengping in the prosperous times.