It's from "Looking at Mei".
Related Ancient Poetry: Song Dynasty —— Mei by Wang Anshi
There are some plums in the corner, and cold ling opens them alone.
I knew from a distance that it wasn't snow, because there was a smell coming.
Translation:
Several plum blossoms in the corner are blooming alone in the cold.
Why do you know from a distance that Bai Meihua is not snow? Because there is a faint plum blossom fragrance.
Extended data
Mei, one of the "four gentlemen" in ancient times. "Four Gentlemen" is an image with special spiritual symbol extracted by ancient literati from the combination of things and environment.
When the ancients borrowed these images, they often had a pattern: bamboo mostly painted bones, and the realm was all in it. Some words were mixed with mottled bamboo, so-called freehand brushwork in the landscape. Loose, associated with painting, painting posture and loose posture; If you write a poem about God, you will be relaxed in your imagination. You draw a poem to express your spirit, and you express your ambition through things. Orchids, one after another, are planted in the basin.
The book is flying in the study, with clear fragrance, elegant book, indifferent and elegant. Plums, like pine, can draw poems. The difference is that pine is vivid with paintings, while plum is vivid with poems. Besides, Mei seems to have all the characteristics of the other three "gentlemen": as thin as a bamboo pole, as colorful as pine and cypress, and as fragrant as blue. Therefore, the artistic conception expressed by Jiumei in the poem "Four Gentlemen" is particularly rich.
My Plum Blossom shows several plums in just a few lines, which just shows these characteristics. In the image, Song often sings a monologue, and the environment is only used as a foil, mainly to see the loose posture. Mei is different from Mei, and Mei is often combined with the environment. Of course, in ink painting, the environment can be blank, but this is the environment, but it is hazy.