The prototype is Zheng Banqiao's "Song of Snow", and the most well-known is Qianlong's imitation of "Flying Snow"
Zheng Banqiao is one of the famous Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, a calligrapher and painter of the Qing Dynasty. Writer, this poem "Ode to Snow" is one of Zheng Banqiao's works. The world's evaluation of Zheng Banqiao's poem is that "the contrast between reality and reality creates a fresh artistic conception."
"Song of Snow"
One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five, six, seven, eight or ninety pieces.
Thousands of countless pieces fly into the plum blossom but they are never seen.
Appreciative translation: The whole poem is almost piled up with numbers, from one to ten to a thousand to ten thousand to countless, but it is not cumbersome at all. Reading it makes people feel like they are in the vast sky and the snow is falling. In the middle of the day, I saw a cold plum blossom standing proudly in the snow, fighting the cold and blooming. The snowflakes blended into the plum blossoms, and people also blended into the snowflakes and plum blossoms.
Qianlong imitated Zheng Banqiao's "Song of Snow", and the name was "Flying Snow"
One piece after another, two pieces, three pieces, four or five pieces.
Six pieces, seven pieces, eighty-nine pieces flew into the reed flowers and disappeared.
Translation: Pieces of flying snow fell in the sky. Many snowflakes flew freely in the sky, flying to the reed flowers but disappearing among them.
Because the two poems are highly similar, and Zheng Banqiao's poems are more artistic than Qianlong's poems, they are widely circulated. Everyone mistakenly thinks that "One Piece, Two Pieces, Three Four Pieces" is Qianlong's poem. In fact, "One Piece, One Piece and Another Piece" is Qianlong's poem.
The creative background of the two:
1. Zheng Banqiao, who first arrived in Yangzhou, was impoverished and temporarily stayed at Bie Feng'an in Jiaoshan. He happened to meet Ma Yue Guan and Ma Yue Lu, and they later became friends. Deep friendship. Later, on a snowy day, Zheng Banqiao braved the wind and snow to visit the two of them at Xiaolinglong Mountain Pavilion. He met a group of scholars enjoying the snow and reciting poems. When they saw Zheng Banqiao wearing coarse cloth, they thought he didn't know how to compose poetry, so they deliberately made things difficult for him. Unexpectedly, Zheng Banqiao recited this poem calmly and calmly.
2. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it is said that Qianlong and his courtiers once visited the West Lake in Hangzhou privately. Looking at the beautiful scenery of the West Lake, he could not help but be immersed in it. At this moment, heavy snow fell in the sky.
Qianlong fell in love with the scene and recited casually: "One piece after another, two pieces, three pieces, four or five pieces, six pieces, seven pieces, eight or nine pieces,..." When he came to the last sentence, he couldn't think of it. . The accompanying ministers saw that the emperor was in embarrassment, and Ji Yun immediately responded: "The reed flowers are gone even if they fly into the air.
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