Where does the cold come from when the city is full of buildings and the jade is dry and the snow is fine?
Translation: The whole city is stained with snow, and the white railings are as white as jade, so it won't be cold when it snows lightly.
It's from Song and Huang Tingjian's Three Poems of Happy Snow in the Second Rhyme.
Original text:
The city is full of jade, and the light snow is not cold when it is sunny. Moisten the bamboo roots to fat and wax bamboo shoots, and warm the vegetables to help the spring plate.
there are many things to watch and travel in front of you, and there is no need to worry about your chest and drink a lot. It is said that if you press the pear, you will have to whip the horse to watch the mud.
Translation:
The whole city is stained with snow, and the white railings are as white as jade. It will not be cold when it snows lightly. The roots of bamboo are moistened by snow, which makes the bamboo shoots grow up. The weather is getting warmer, and the longer the vegetables, the better, which indicates the arrival of spring. There are many things in front of you, but less to watch and play. If you have no sorrow in your heart, you will naturally drink more. I heard that the pear has started to move, and I will whip and drive the horse to watch it in the spring mud.
Extended information
The song "Three Stories of Happy Snow in the Second Rhyme" by Huang Tingjian, a poet in the Song Dynasty, describes the scene of the light snow season in the twenty-four solar terms. The father of Huang Xiang, a doctor in the Southern Song Dynasty, the eldest son in the Northern Song Dynasty, the protagonist of the story of "washing the relatives and drowning" in "Twenty-four Filial Pieties", a famous writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the founder of Jiangxi Poetry School.
Huang tingjian's calligraphy is unique and one of the "Song Sijia". Professor Peking University and Li Zhimin, the pioneer of introducing monuments into the grass, commented: "Huang Tingjian's comments on books, paintings and poems are all based on rhymes, and he attracts cranes into the grass, making him strong and prosperous, with a new realm."
Huang Tingjian, Zhang Lei, Chao Buzhi and Qin Guan all studied under Su Shi's school, and they are collectively called "Four Scholars of Su Men". During his lifetime, he was as famous as Su Shi, and was called "Su Huang" in the world. His works include "Valley Ci" and so on. Huang Tingjian was an honest and upright official all his life, and his scholarship was rigorous. He set an example through the ages by being a literary master and a model of filial piety.