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也无风雨也无晴

也無風雨也無晴
yě wú fēngyǔ yě wú qíng
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 neither storm nor sunshine - nothing at all
  2. 2 beyond the weather: a mind untouched by ups and downs
  3. 3 Su Shi's image of equanimity through life's reversals

Examples

HSK 5
经历这么多以后，他的心态已经是也无风雨也无晴。
Jīnglì zhème duō yǐhòu, tā de xīntài yǐjīng shì yěwúfēngyǔyěwúqíng.
After all he's been through, his state of mind is 'neither storm nor shine.'
HSK 7-9
回首向来萧瑟处，归去，也无风雨也无晴。
Huíshǒu xiànglái xiāosè chù, guīqù, yěwúfēngyǔyěwúqíng.
Looking back at the bleak place I came from - I go home: neither wind and rain, nor clear weather.

Tips

history
From Su Shi's (苏轼, Northern Song dynasty) 《定风波·莫听穿林打叶声》: 回首向来萧瑟处，归去，也无风雨也无晴 - 'Looking back at the bleak place I've come from, I go home: no wind and rain, no bright weather either.' Written after Su was caught in a storm on a Huangzhou road during his political exile - a Zen-flavored declaration that the weather of life neither harms nor pleases him anymore.
usage
晴 here is literally 'clear weather / sunshine' (contrast with 雨 'rain'), not the 情 pun in Liu Yuxi. The line has become the most popular Song-dynasty expression of emotional equanimity, regularly tattooed, calligraphed, and quoted after breakups and setbacks.

Stroke Order

也 yě
无 wú
风 fēng
雨 yǔ
晴 qíng