Snow used to be like flowers, but now it is like snow. This sentence comes from Fan Yun's Two Poems One in the Southern Dynasties. The whole poem is
Luoyang city, east, west, north and south, longs for classics.
Snow used to be like flowers, but now it is like snow.
Last time I left, the snow fell like a flower, and now it's coming again, as white as snow. These two poems are lamenting that gathering is too short and parting is too long, and it will take a long time to meet each other after each breakup.
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This poem is about friends' meeting and parting, which shows profound friendship.
This poem reflects the difference between festivals and things and the long time of parting through different descriptions of winter and spring scenery. Among them, the phrase "snow used to be like flowers, but flowers are like snow now" is well known. "Flowers are like snow" means that when they left, flowers were like snow in spring. "Today is like a flower" means that now I'm back, when snowflakes were as bright as spring flowers.
"Snow is like a flower", "snow" is the noumenon, "flower" is a metaphor, and it is winter when you leave; Flowers Like Snow, in which "flowers" are the noumenon and "snow" is the metaphor, implies that reunion is a spring full of flowers, and the pain after a long separation melts into it, which seems to write about scenery, but in fact it writes about feelings.
In this poem, the echo between "snow is like a flower" and "flowers are like snow" is very natural and appropriate, subtly taking care of the previous "time difference". A "snow" and a "flower" are a contrast between cold and warm.
Secretly connected with a "past", a "present", a "going" (respectively) and a "coming" (meeting), from the past to the present, from the past to the present, what changes have you experienced? I don't know how my friends are these days, but it will take many years for poets to feel parting.
Poetry only comes from winter in time, but the poet turns snow and flowers upside down, turning out new ideas, ingenious ideas and intriguing. The beauty of this poem lies in the connection between images, which makes people doubt that it is a "pen from heaven".