斜风细雨不须归

斜風細雨不須歸
xié fēng xì yǔ bù xū guī
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 slanting wind and drizzle — no need to go home yet
  2. 2 Zhang Zhihe's fisherman's line — the rain is so gentle the angler doesn't bother heading back

Examples

Zhōumò qù jiāowài diàoyú, xiéfēngxìyǔbùxūguī.
Fishing in the countryside at the weekend — slanting wind, fine rain, no need to go home.
Tā xǐhuān chūn yǔ zhōng sànbù, yī jù xiéfēngxìyǔbùxūguī zuì pèi tā de xīnqíng.
He loves walking in spring rain — nothing fits his mood like 'slanting wind and drizzle, no need to go home.'

Tips

history
From 《渔歌》 by (Zhang Zhihe, Tang dynasty): '西桃花流水绿细雨.' One of the earliest ci poems, a five-line fisherman song that became a template for East Asian nature painting and Japanese waka.
usage
(xū) here = 'need / have to,' classical sense — same as 必须. = 'need not / no need to.'

Stroke Order

xié
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guī