This sentence comes from Wang Wei's Three Miscellaneous Poems II in the Tang Dynasty. The lyric hero in the poem is a person who has lived in a foreign land for a long time and suddenly meets an old friend from his hometown. The first thing that aroused him was a strong homesickness, eager to know the scenery and personnel of his hometown.
The "I" in this poem asked each other alone: When you passed my silk window, did plum blossom the first cold flower? ? It seems that my hometown is very memorable, just in front of the window. This is very unnatural. But this is not a pose.
The so-called "homesickness" is completely a kind of "thinking in images", and all the people who are homesick come up with concrete images or pictures. Old friends in my hometown, mountains and rivers, local conditions and customs are all worth remembering.
Sometimes it is often something that looks ordinary and small that causes cordial nostalgia. Han Mei in front of the window is an example. It may contain intimate and interesting events in family life in those days. Therefore, this cold plum has become a symbol of my hometown, and naturally it has become a concentrated sustenance of my homesickness.
There are often such unpretentious and poetic works in ancient poetry. It seems so simple that it doesn't need any skills, but it actually contains the most advanced skills. A poem like Han Mei, through special embodiment, is a typical skill, but this skill embodies a plain and homely form.