This sentence comes from Meng Yunqing's Cold Food.
Original text:
Jiangnan in February is full of flowers, and cold food in other places is far from sadness.
Poor people often don't have fireworks, not only in the Ming Dynasty.
Explanation:
In the south of the Yangtze River in February, the climate is warm and fresh flowers are blooming. However, I am wandering outside and have to spend the Cold Food Festival in a different place, which makes me sad. The shabby house didn't light smoke, not just for tomorrow's memorial ceremony.
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Appreciate:
The Cold Food Festival is on the 105th day from winter to the future, which is February. Due to the warm climate in the south of the Yangtze River, February is full of flowers. The first sentence of the poem describes phenology and points out the season. The word "people" conveys the feeling of flowers in spring in the south of the Yangtze River. It is natural to be moved by this scene.
It should have been a pleasure to match this beautiful scenery, but the second sentence actually wrote "sadness". The author is a Kansai native, traveling in the south of the Yangtze River, living alone in a foreign land, and living in a strange place; Cold food festival, missing relatives, can not help but feel sad. In addition, the "cold food" here also implies that there is little food and no food, so eating "cold food" in other places is even more tragic.
Poetry often writes sad feelings in sad scenes, which is the artistic technique of foil. However, this poem describes the beautiful scenery of "flowers blooming in February in the south of the Yangtze River", and then writes that "cold food in other places is far from sad". Facing the flowers in sadness, it is convenient for the natural world to be different. It is that "flowers, as high as my window, hurt the hearts of wanderers" can only increase their sadness. Appropriate use of artistic techniques of contrast makes expression more powerful.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Cold Food Meng Yunqing