Xue Mei

Song Lu said.

Xue Mei refused to surrender for spring, and the poet pavilion commented on the pen fee.

The snow in Mei Xu Xun is three points white, but the snow has lost a kind of plum fragrance.

Sentence by sentence translation

Xue Mei refused to surrender for spring, and the poet pavilion commented on the pen fee.

Both plum blossom and snowflake think that they have occupied all the spring scenery, and no one will give up. It is difficult for poets to write critical articles.

The snow in Mei Xu Xun is three points white, but the snow has lost a kind of plum fragrance.

To be fair, plum blossoms make snowflakes crystal white, but snowflakes lose to plum blossoms.

Complete translation

Both plum blossom and snowflake think that they have occupied all the spring scenery, and no one will give up. It is difficult for poets to write critical articles. To be fair, plum blossoms make snowflakes crystal white, but snowflakes lose to plum blossoms.

To annotate ...

Poet: Poet.

Ge Bi: Put down the pen. Pavilion, it says "put it down". Comment on chapters and articles, here refers to the evaluation of Mei Xue.

Make an appreciative comment

Many poets in ancient and modern times often write snow and plum together. Because Meier Snow reveals the information of spring, because Meier Snow shows noble character. For example, in Mao Zedong's Operator Yongmei, he once wrote: "Wind and rain send spring home, and snow flies to welcome the spring. Although the icicles on the cliff are still hanging for miles. There is a sweet flower in it. Joe doesn't fight for spring, he only reports it. When the mountain flowers are in full bloom, she laughs in the bushes. " Snow and plum have become the messengers of spring, and the symbol that winter goes and spring comes. The first sentence uses anthropomorphic methods to write that plum blossom and snowflake compete with each other, and they all think that they are the characteristics of the earliest spring, and they do not admit defeat, creatively and vividly showing the beauty of plum blossom and snowflake in early spring. It is difficult for poets to judge between the two. The poet thought it was a stroke of a pen, but because it was difficult to judge, he had to stop writing and think. "Comment on chapter" means evaluation. The last two sentences are the poet's comments on Mei and Xue. As far as whiteness is concerned, plum is worse than snow, but snow has no taste of plum blossoms. "Three points" is not much different. "One paragraph" materializes the aroma, which makes people feel that the aroma can be measured. Predecessors have noticed these characteristics of Mei and Xue, such as "Song of Snow White Farewell to Mr. Wu's Hometown": "Like a spring breeze, ten thousand pears have blown away overnight." Wang Anshi's poem "Plum Blossoms": "There are several plums in a corner, and hanling blooms alone. I know from a distance that it is not snow, because it has a faint fragrance. " But this poem summarizes the different characteristics of Mei and Xue in the two poems, which is very interesting and has certain influence.

About the author: Lu Yue

Lu Yue, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, was born and died in an unknown year. The word "Wei Jie" is Zhong Wei's masterpiece, named "Mei Po", so it is also called "Lu Meipo". Min County (now Fuzhou, Fujian Province), whose representative works are Xue Mei. Simple poetry style, good at writing plants, like chanting flowers, like plum blossoms very much.