'As if a spring wind had come in a single night, ten thousand pear trees burst into bloom' is Cen Shen's famous couplet about snow.
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Here 参 is read shēn, not cān as in 参加. Shēn is also its reading in 人参, 'ginseng'. The same goes for 曾参, the disciple of Confucius.
history
He served twice with the Tang armies in the far northwest, in what is now Xinjiang. His poems of snowstorms, desert winds and army camps made him, with 高适, the leading poet of the frontier; the two are often named together as 高岑.
