Liánzhe xià le shí tiān yǔ, tā gǎntàn dào: huángméi shíjié jiājiā yǔ a.
After ten days of rain, she sighed: truly 'plum-rain season, rain at every house.'
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From 《约客》 by 赵师秀 (Zhao Shixiu, Southern Song): '黄梅时节家家雨，青草池塘处处蛙。' A poet waits in vain for a visitor — rain everywhere, frogs everywhere, no friend.
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黄梅 = 'yellow plum,' the name for the early-summer rainy season (meiyu 梅雨) when plums ripen in the Yangtze delta. Still used today in weather forecasts.
