东方风来满眼春

東方風來滿眼春

dōngfāng fēng lái mǎn yǎn chūn

quotation

Meanings

1 the east wind blows and spring fills the eye
2 the east wind brings spring everywhere the eye can see

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

这篇报道用‘东方风来满眼春’形容深圳的变化。

Zhè piān bàodào yòng ' dōngfāngfēngláimǎnyǎnchūn ' xíngróng Shēnzhèn de biànhuà.

The article uses ‘the east wind brings spring to the eye’ to describe Shenzhen's transformation.

HSK 5

改革开放以来，东方风来满眼春。

Gǎigé kāifàng yǐlái, dōngfāngfēngláimǎnyǎnchūn.

Since Reform and Opening, the east wind has blown and spring fills the view.

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history

From Li He 李贺's Tang poem 《河南府试十二月乐词·三月》: '东方风来满眼春，花城柳暗愁杀人。' (The east wind brings spring to every eye; in the flower-city, willow-shade can sadden a soul to death.) Given renewed fame by the 1992 reportage series 《东方风来满眼春》, which documented Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour - making the line a stock shorthand for China's reform era.

usage

In modern political/economic writing it is almost always a reference to the 1992 Deng Xiaoping reportage, not the original Tang poem.

Stroke Order

东 dōng

方 fāng

风 fēng

来 lái

满 mǎn

眼 yǎn

春 chūn