Why do Guimiyan have white flowers and red leaves in sparse forests?

The flowers of Guimiyan are white, and the leaves of pear trees are red.

It comes from "Winter Suburban Travel" by Wang Bo of the Tang Dynasty.

The flowers of Guimiyan are white, and the leaves of pear trees are red.

Jiang Gaohan looked away and thought about it.

Translation:

The sweet-scented osmanthus growing on the rocks is very dense and white. The fruits on the pear trees have become sparse and the leaves have turned red.

On this cold riverside, looking to the far end, my desire to return home has drifted away with the long wind, just like the Zhengpeng that has left its roots.

Author introduction:

Wang Bo (650-676), a poet in the early Tang Dynasty. The courtesy name is Zi'an, a native of Longmen, Jiangzhou (today's Yingshan and Hejin areas of Shanxi Province). Grandfather Wang Tong is a famous scholar. Wang Bo was extremely intelligent when he was young. It is said that he could compose music at the age of six. He was known as a child prodigy. At that time, cockfighting was very popular among kings, and Wang Bo ridiculed it by writing a play called "A Call to the King of Zhou's Chicken".

The King of Zhou was the son of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, and later became Zhongzong Li Xian. Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, was angry that Wang Bo was "disrespectful" and expelled him from the palace. Wang Bo was able to roam around the egg and once served as a member of the army in Guozhou. Later, he was implicated in a capital crime and was pardoned and dismissed. His father, Wang Fuchou, died because of Implicated by Wang Bo, he was demoted from the Yongzhou Sigong Army to the rank of Jiaozhi Commander. Soon after Wang Bo went to visit his relatives, he was frightened and drowned. Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Binshi died. The four heroes of the early Tang Dynasty are equally famous. Although they were new at the time, they all strived to create a subtle and sculptural style of poetry, broaden the subject matter of poetry, express a positive and enterprising spirit, and choose to express political emotion and emotion. Due to their outstanding contributions in innovating Qi and Liang poetry styles and promoting the maturation of Wulu, Du Fu was praised as "Wang Yang, Lu Luo and others at that time". Wang Bo's poets wanted to describe personal life, but a few chose to take political sides and express dissatisfaction in their works, with a relatively fresh style. Most of his poems are neatly arranged and repeated from top to bottom, but some poems are still "impetuous and showy" and are too showy, and they have not completely got rid of the poetic style of the Six Dynasties with gorgeous rhetoric. Wang Bo's article is famous for his "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion". There is "Wang Zi'an Ji".

Appreciation of "Winter Suburbs" Appreciation:

The sweet-scented osmanthus growing on the rocks is very dense and white. The fruits of Qiuzi pear have become sparse, but its leaves have turned red. In this desolate river bay, I looked around in all directions. My homesickness was like a tent that had left its roots, drifting away in the long wind.