The origin of "The iron horse in the autumn wind blocks the north, the apricot blossoms in the spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River"
1. "The iron horse blocks the north in the autumn wind, the apricot flowers in the spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the coconut trees in the scorching sun on the island, and the yak in the ice and snow plateau" This is Jiangsu Education Press The first volume of the second-grade primary school Chinese language experimental textbook published is "Literacy 6". ?
2. The esthetician Zhu Guangqian (1897-1986) quoted in Chapter 15 "Rigid Beauty and Flexible Beauty" of "Literary Psychology" "The autumn wind of the horse in the north of Hebei, the apricot blossom in the spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River."
Excerpts from "Literary Psychology":
There are two kinds of beauty in nature: one is the eagle and ancient pine, and the other is the delicate oriole and tender willow. If you understand carefully, anything that can be described with the word "beautiful" does not belong to the category of eagles and ancient pines, but to the category of delicate orioles and tender willows. Otherwise, it is a mixture of the two categories. In the past, there were two six-character poems that said: "The autumn wind blows to the north of Hebei Province, and the apricot blossoms spring rain to the south of the Yangtze River." Each of these two lines of poems only mentions three special features, but they can symbolize all beauty.
When I say "horses in the autumn wind north of Hebei", you will think of "powerful" and "vigorous"; when I say "apricot blossoms in spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River", you will think of "beautiful" and "delicate" ; The former is "spirit" and the latter is "charm"; the former is rigid beauty; the latter is soft beauty.