The north wind blows the white grass on the ground, and the sky is full of snow in August. ——Cen Shen's "Baixuege Sends Magistrate Wu Back to the Capital"
Interpretation: The north wind sweeps across the earth and breaks the white grass, and the weather in the Hu land is full of snow falling in August.
The forest is bright and clear, and the city is getting colder at dusk. ——Zu Yong "Watching the Remaining Snow in the South"
Interpretation: It is clear after the snow, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines between the treetops. In the evening, the city of Chang'an has become a bit colder.
Suddenly a spring breeze came overnight, and thousands of pear trees bloomed. ——Cen Shen's "Baixue Ge Sends Magistrate Wu Back to the Capital"
Interpretation: Suddenly, it was like a spring breeze blowing overnight, and thousands of pear trees were in full bloom.
The Yin ridge in Zhongnan is beautiful, with snow floating in the clouds. ——Zu Yong "Looking at the remaining snow in the south"
Interpretation: Looking at the south in the distance, the North Mountain is beautiful, with white snow, like floating clouds.
Snow powder flowers, dancing pear blossoms, four or five families in Yancun will no longer be seen. ——Guan Hanqing's "Dade Song·Winter Scene"
Interpretation: The heavy snow has a pink and white brilliance, like flying pear blossoms, covering the farmhouses in twos and threes in the countryside.
The vast sea is covered with hundreds of feet of ice, and the gloomy clouds condense thousands of miles away. ——Cen Shen's "Song of White Snow Sends Magistrate Wu Back to the Capital"
Interpretation: The desert is frozen for hundreds of feet with cracks vertically and horizontally, and the sky is filled with gloomy and sad clouds.
The Yellow River can be blocked by holding soil, but the north wind, rain and snow can hardly cut it. ——Li Bai's "Travel to the North Wind"
Interpretation: Although the Yellow River is deep and can be blocked by a handful of earth, only the hatred of separation and death in this life is as overwhelming and boundless as the long north wind, rain and snow.
At night, there is a foot of snow outside the city, and at dawn, the charcoal cart rolls over the ice tracks. ——Li Shangyin's "The Charcoal Seller"
Explanation: A foot of heavy snow fell outside the city at night. In the early morning, the old man drove his charcoal cart over the frozen wheel tracks to the market.
It is still far from being warm all year round, but this year the cold weather is completely gone. ——Du Fu's "Twelfth Day"
Interpretation: In previous years, the weather was still very cold, and warmth was still far away. The climate during the twelfth lunar month was mild and the ice was completely gone.
The weather is snowy and sunny, the waist is loose and the jade is thin, and the spring is ice cold. ——Zhang Kejiu's "The Full Moon·Wandering Tiger Hill in the Snow"
Interpretation: It is clear after the snow, a realm as white as silver; the green pines stand tall and graceful against the white snow, like countless swans wearing plain clothes The beauty, covered with branches and leaves in snow, looks even more graceful and slender with a slender waist; at the mouth of the mountain spring, the spring water and snow flakes have merged to form a thin layer of ice, like the eyes of the ice beauty, crystal clear and cold.
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