Some limericks about snow

Regarding the doggerel about snow, Zhang Dayou's poem Love Snow is very famous.

Yong Xue is a doggerel written by Zhang Dayou, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem vividly and humorously shows the characteristics of the scenery in the snow by line drawing.

Name of the work

Xue Yong

author

Zhang Dayou

Year of creation

the Tang Dynasty

Source of works

Old poems and new stories

Literary genre

doggerel

original work

There are black holes in the well.

The yellow dog is white and the white dog is swollen.

Vernacular translation

The heavy snow dyed the whole country white, and only the well in front of the house became a black hole.

The yellow dog and the white dog are chasing in the snow. The yellow dog is dyed white, and the white dog is covered with snow, which seems to be swollen.

Creation background

One winter, there was a heavy snow all over the mountain, and it was all white. People in Zhang Dayou village are very happy to see such good snow. One by one, they came to Zhang Dayou's home and asked him to write a poem on "Singing Snow". Zhang Dayou is very happy to see his neighbor walking in the snow. He looked at the flying snowflakes and strange snow scenes, took paper and ink, and meditated attentively. At this time, a yellow dog and a white dog in the village followed him. He wrote this poem with great care.