东方风来满眼春

東方風來滿眼春

dōngfāngfēngláimǎnyǎnchūn

phrase

Meanings

1 the east wind blows and spring fills the eye
2 the east wind brings spring everywhere the eye can see

Characters

Examples

改革开放以来，东方风来满眼春。

Gǎigé kāifàng yǐlái, dōngfāng fēng lái mǎn yǎn chūn.

Since Reform and Opening, the east wind has blown and spring fills the view.

这篇报道用‘东方风来满眼春’形容深圳的变化。

Zhè piān bàodào yòng ‘dōngfāng fēng lái mǎn yǎn chūn’ xíngróng Shēnzhèn de biànhuà.

The article uses ‘the east wind brings spring to the eye’ to describe Shenzhen's transformation.

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history

From Li He 李贺's Tang poem 《河南府试十二月乐词·三月》: ‘东方风来满眼春，花城柳暗愁杀人。’ (The east wind brings spring to every eye; in the flower-city, willow-shade can sadden a soul to death.) Given renewed fame by the 1992 reportage series 《东方风来满眼春》, which documented Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour — making the line a stock shorthand for China's reform era.

usage

In modern political/economic writing it is almost always a reference to the 1992 Deng Xiaoping reportage, not the original Tang poem.

Stroke Order

东 dōng

方 fāng

风 fēng

来 lái

满 mǎn

眼 yǎn

春 chūn