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萧瑟秋风今又是

蕭瑟秋風今又是
xiāosè qiūfēng jīn yòu shì
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 the rustling autumn wind is here once more
  2. 2 the old melancholy season returns - but the world is utterly changed
  3. 3 (lit.) desolate autumn wind now again is

Examples

HSK 7-9
每到九月，就想起萧瑟秋风今又是。
Měi dào jiǔyuè, jiù xiǎngqǐ xiāosè qiūfēng jīn yòu shì.
Every September I am reminded of 'the rustling autumn wind is here once more.'
HSK 7-9
公园的落叶铺了一地，正是萧瑟秋风今又是的景象。
Gōngyuán de luòyè pū le yí dì, zhèngshì xiāosè qiūfēng jīn yòu shì de jǐngxiàng.
The park is carpeted with fallen leaves - truly the scene of 'the rustling autumn wind come again.'

Tips

history
From 毛泽东《浪淘沙·北戴河》(Mao Zedong, Lang Tao Sha: Beidaihe, 1954): 往事越千年，魏武挥鞭，东临碣石有遗篇。萧瑟秋风今又是，换了人间 (A thousand years ago, Emperor Wu of Wei cracked his whip, rode east to Jieshi, left his verse. The rustling autumn wind is here once more - but the human world has changed). A direct echo of 曹操《观沧海》: 秋风萧瑟，洪波涌起.
usage
Always quoted together with 换了人间 - the rhetorical point is the contrast between the unchanged wind and the revolutionized society. 萧瑟 = rustling, desolate. A deliberate two-line dialogue across 1,700 years of Chinese poetry.

Stroke Order

萧 xiāo
瑟 sè
秋 qiū
风 fēng
今 jīn
又 yòu
是 shì