A short pattern of 50 characters, often used for light or pastoral verse.
辛弃疾's has the couplet
稻花香里说丰年,
听取蛙声一片 'amid the scent of rice flowers they talk of a good harvest, and hear the frogs all around', which gave the
稻花香 baijiu its name.
苏轼's opens
世事一场大梦 'the affairs of the world are one long dream'.