The content of the whole poem is: one piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven pieces, eight pieces and ninety pieces. Thousands of pieces are always missing when they fly into plum blossoms.
Interpretation of vernacular:
It's snowing heavily, one snowflake, three snowflakes, four snowflakes, five snowflakes, six snowflakes, seven snowflakes and eight snowflakes. The snow is getting heavier and heavier. Snowflakes are like thousands of Qian Qian. Thousands of snowflakes fell on plum blossoms, but suddenly disappeared.
This is a seven-character quatrain written by Zheng Banqiao. The beautiful scenery of snow-capped reed flowers is painted very touching by the method of collecting first and then releasing.
Extended data:
1. Poems in Ode to Snow are almost all piled up with numbers, from one to ten thousand to ten thousand to countless, but there is no suspicion of being cumbersome. Reading makes people feel as if they are in a vast world with heavy snow, but when they see a cold plum standing proudly in the snow, they shudder and spit it out. The snowflake melts into the plum blossom, and people also melt into it.
2. Ji Xiaolan Edition: One, two, three or four, five, six, seven or eight, nine, ten, eleven, all flew into the grass and disappeared.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia _ Yong Xue (works by Zheng Banqiao)