Yixing: Snow in Yangxian

Snow in the regions south of Yangtze River is so hard to meet that you cannot plan its coming. It is a precious fate to meet it. If we could walk in the snow together, it can be regarded as a life-long forecast.

Pear blossom is slight white but willow leaf is dark green.

Willow catkin flies over the city like flowers.

I feel as disconsolate as the lonely pear blossom in Donglan.

That is because I am clear about the world.

During his stay in Yangxian, Mr. Su Dongpo did meet a snowy Yangxian. As his poem saying, the intention reason to buy land in Yangxian for my retirement was the beautiful landscape here. Settling down in a place is just because he likes the local customs and is used to be the weather there.

Xishan snows to be a silvery world. Like the winter one thousand years ago, it is elegant, quiet and comfortable.

Yangxian snows. The mountain turns white like a long silver snake. Snow implies harvest, happiness, reunion, sweet and safe.

(Source: Learning Power Wuxi Channel)