风雪夜归人

風雪夜歸人
fēngxuěyèguīrén
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 a traveler returning home on a snowy, windswept night
  2. 2 the lonely wanderer at a lodging gate
  3. 3 iconic image of shelter from the storm

Examples

Dōng yè tīngjiàn qiāo mén shēng, tā xiǎng qǐ nà jù "fēng xuě yè guī rén".
Hearing a knock at the winter gate, she thought of the line 'a traveler returning in wind and snow.'
Zhè fú huà tí wéi 《Fēng Xuě Yè Guī Rén》, yìjìng shífēn cāngliáng.
This painting is titled 'Returning on a Wind-and-Snow Night'; its mood is deeply desolate.

Tips

history
Closing line of Liu Changqing's (, mid-Tang) 《宿芙蓉主人》 ('Lodging at Furong Mountain in a Snowstorm'): 风雪 — 'Dusk, the dark mountains far; cold sky, the white thatched cottage bare. At the brushwood gate a dog barks — a traveler returning in wind and snow.' Four lines that became a fixture of Chinese landscape painting.
usage
Used almost exclusively as a poetic quotation — invoked to conjure the atmosphere of lonely nighttime return, often as a title for paintings, films, or essays.

Stroke Order

fēng
xuě
guī
rén