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'.