Do not use it to describe people, spring and snow, a Chinese idiom, pronounced yáng chūn bái xuě, originally referred to the more elegant songs of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, but later it was used as a metaphor for advanced and unpopular literature and art.

Example: Literature and art must be popularized and improved; the masses are familiar with "lower people"; but they also need "springs and snow".

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Idiom story

The allusion of Yangchun Baixue comes from the article "Song Yu's Answer to the King of Chu" in "Chu Ci". King Xiang of Chu asked Song Yu if he had any hidden virtues. Why don't the common people praise you very much? Song Yu said that there were singers who came to Yingzhong in the state of Chu. At first they sang "Xialiba people", and there were thousands of people in the country.

When the singer sang "Yang A Xie Lu", there were only a few hundred people in the country. When the singers sang "Spring and Snow", there were only dozens of middle school students. When the song added some difficult skills, that is, "introducing businessmen, carving feathers, and mixing them with military conquests", there were only a few people who were able to win in junior high school. Song Yu's conclusion is, "It's the music that makes the song high, and the harmony that makes the song less." The more elegant and complex the songs such as "Yangchun Baixue" are, the fewer people can sing the harmony, that is, the song is high and the song is low.

Of course, the purpose of this discussion between Song Yu and King Xiang of Chu was not to talk about the song itself, but to emphasize the huge gap between elegance and vulgarity, and to defend his talents and virtues from being recognized by the world. Song Yu went on to say that "birds have phoenixes and fish have kun", which is naturally extraordinary and can be compared with common things.

Song Yu said, "Not only does a bird have a phoenix, but a fish has a kun, so does a scholar." Finally, Song Yu drew his own conclusion, that is, "The saint is full of beauty, and lives alone in detachment; What do ordinary people do? "Song Yu means that great and extraordinary people in the world often act independently, and their thoughts and actions are often not understood by ordinary people.

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