Hán Yù zài 《 Zǎochūn chéng shuǐbù Zhāng Shíbā yuánwài 》 lǐ shuō, zǎochūn de cǎo yuǎn kàn shì lǜ de, zǒujìn le què kànbujiàn.
In 'Early Spring, to Zhang the Eighteenth of the Water Bureau', Han Yu says that the early spring grass looks green from afar but disappears when you come close.
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usage
The title is a note to a friend. 张十八 is the poet 张籍, eighteenth among the cousins of his generation, and 水部员外 was his post, a vice director in the Water Bureau of the Ministry of Works.
culture
Written in 823. The first of the two quatrains is the famous one: 天街小雨润如酥，草色遥看近却无。最是一年春好处，绝胜烟柳满皇都。 'Fine rain on the capital's streets, soft as butter; the green of the grass shows from afar but vanishes up close. This is the best time of the whole year's spring, far better than when misty willows fill the capital.'
