About the poet: Xu lacked a distinctive style and so was not well-known during the Tang Dynasty, which was filled with famous poets, or quite a long time after it. There are only five poems of his collected in The Entire Tang Poems. And all we have known about him is only that he was an advanced scholar during the reign of the Dezhong Emperor in Tang Dynasty. This poem is written for the Minor Snow solar term with simple words and rich imagination.

Source: sc.zdic.net

Translated by Zhang Min

Editor: Wen Yi