Ode to Snow is a seven-character quatrain written by Zheng Banqiao, a poet in Qing Dynasty. This poem uses the technique of collecting first and then releasing, and depicts the beautiful scenery of snowflakes and white plum blossoms very touching.
Original works
Ode to Snow
One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five, six, seven, eight and ninety pieces.
thousands of pieces, countless pieces, flying into the plum blossom always disappear.
Vernacular Interpretation
Snowflakes are falling, one piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five, six, seven, eight and ninety pieces.
There are only a few pieces in a thousand pieces, which disappeared after flying into the plum blossoms.
Extended information:
Appreciation of literature
The first two sentences of the poem are imaginary, and the last two sentences are real, which creates a fresh artistic conception. The first three sentences seem ordinary, wandering in the trough, but in the fourth sentence at the end, the whole poem is pushed from the trough to the peak at once with the profound artistic conception of dynamic and static.
Almost all the poems are piled up with numbers, ranging from one to ten to thousands to countless, but they are not burdensome at all. Reading them makes people feel like they are in a vast world of heavy snow, but when they see a pair of cold plums standing proudly in the snow, the snowflakes are mixed with plum blossoms, and people are also mixed with them.