Thousands of pear trees bloom suddenly like a spring breeze overnight. It is winter
Why is this poem understood to describe winter? In addition to the climate point of view, "A sudden spring breeze comes overnight, and thousands of pear trees bloom" describes winter. Judging from the content expressed in the poem and the poet's intention in writing the poem, it should also be understood as winter.
"The north wind blows and the white grass on the ground folds, and Hu Tianfei snows in August. Suddenly, like a spring breeze coming overnight, thousands of pear trees bloom." The first four sentences focus on Hu Tianfeixue's The scene compares the flying snow to pear blossoms, and compares the severe cold scene of heavy snow outside the Great Wall to the warm scene of pear blossoms in bloom in spring. The two types of objects are put together to form a sharp contrast;
On the one hand, it highlights the environment outside the Great Wall Coldness, on the one hand, expresses the poet's inner warmth. While "warm" is used to write "cold", "cold" is also used to write "warm". The two set off each other. And there are many descriptions in the following articles that use this kind of expression technique. Therefore, judging from the expression content of the poem and the poet's intention in writing the poem, the description of the severe cold winter here is more expressive.
Misunderstanding 1: Thinking that it describes spring
This is because some people do not correctly understand the meaning of the original poem. "Suddenly a spring breeze came overnight, and thousands of pear blossoms bloomed" comes from "Song of White Snow Sending Magistrate Wu Back to the Capital" by Cen Shen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. To understand this poem, you need to read it in conjunction with the previous text, and read the first two sentences together. It is "The north wind blows and the white grass breaks on the ground, and the sky is full of snow in August.
Suddenly a spring breeze comes overnight, and thousands of pear blossoms bloom." It can be seen that the "north wind" is clearly described in the poem , "flying snow" and other objects, the poet compares the flying snow to blooming pear blossoms, not the pear blossoms actually described in spring, so this season is not spring.
Misunderstanding 2: Thinking that it describes autumn
The reason why some people think that this poem describes autumn has a certain reason. This is because the poem clearly states "Hu The expression of time "in August". Hutian is in August. August here is in the lunar calendar and October is in the solar calendar. Judging from the division of the "twenty-four solar terms", "Beginning of Winter" is the beginning of winter, and Beginning of Winter is in December, so it does belong to autumn.
However, from a climatological point of view, the four seasons are divided by the average temperature method. If the daily average temperature is equal to or lower than 10 degrees Celsius for five consecutive days, it is considered to have entered winter. Judging from the poet's writing background, Hu Tianfei's snowy August has already entered the climatic winter.