沁园春

沁園春
Qìnyuánchūn
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Spring in Qin Garden, a ci tune pattern

Examples

HSK 7-9
Máo Zédōng de 《 Qìnyuánchūn · Xuě 》 xiě de shì běifāng de xuějǐng.
Mao Zedong's 'Snow', written to the tune Qinyuanchun, describes a snowy northern landscape.

Tips

culture
A long pattern of 114 characters, suited to sweeping, grand lines. The name is said to come from the garden of an Eastern Han princess that a powerful general seized. The best-known poems to it are by 毛泽东: 《沁园春·长沙》 (1925) and 《沁园春·雪》 (1936), which ends 数风流人物,还看今朝 'for truly great men, look to the present'.

Stroke Order

沁 qìn
园 yuán
春 chūn