桃花依旧笑春风

桃花依舊笑春風

táohuā yījiù xiào chūnfēng

quotation

Meanings

1 the peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze
2 the scene is unchanged but the person is gone
3 closing line of Cui Hu's Tang poem on a lost love

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

校园还是老样子，桃花依旧笑春风，只是同学们都散了。

Xiàoyuán háishi lǎo yàngzi, táohuāyījiùxiàochūnfēng, zhǐshì tóngxué men dōu sàn le.

The campus looks the same, peach blossoms still smiling at the spring breeze - only the classmates have scattered.

HSK 7-9

故地重游，物是人非，真是桃花依旧笑春风。

Gù dì chóng yóu, wùshìrénfēi, zhēnshì táohuāyījiùxiàochūnfēng.

Revisiting the old place - the scene unchanged, the people gone - truly 'peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze.'

Tips

history

出自唐代崔护《题都城南庄》：“去年今日此门中，人面桃花相映红。人面不知何处去，桃花依旧笑春风。”相传崔护清明游城南，遇一女子赠水，次年重访，门扉紧闭，题诗于门。后成为“物是人非”最经典的意象。

usage

常与“人面不知何处去”搭配引用，也常化用为“物是人非”。多用于故地重游、怀念旧人的场合。

Stroke Order

桃 táo

花 huā

依 yī

旧 jiù

笑 xiào

春 chūn

风 fēng