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Three Friends and a Hundred Birds by Bian Wenjin, Ming dynasty. The Three Friends of Winter are common in works of art from Chinese culture [9] and those cultures influenced by it. The three are first recorded as appearing together in a ninth-century poem by the poet Zhu Qingyu (朱慶餘) of the Tang dynasty. [8]
The pine is traditionally known as one of the 'Three Friends of Winter' in China. In the poem it is not the fact of the flower's rapid growth that makes the main contrast but the ability of the tree to withstand adverse conditions.
The 'three friends in winter' is a motif frequently seen in Chinese art. The motif consists of pines, bamboos, and plum trees or else plum trees and a stone. The symbolism is that of longevity, constancy, and flowering during winter, before it is yet spring.
"There are three friends of winter: the pine tree, the plum blossom, and bamboo,' Shanghai Papa once told me." - from Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds, by Ping Fu The above quote exemplifies ...
Collectively, they are called the Three Friends of Winter because bamboo and pine do not wither on winter days and the plum blossoms starts blooming during the cold season. Bamboo also exhibits a certain visual appeal on educated people because its silhouette cast by either the sun or moon on the paper windows of a Chinese house produced a ...
Example axe blood-ember Blóðeisu: N: Einarr Skúlason, Øxarflokkr 7 battle spear-din N: Snorri Sturluson, Skaldskaparmal: blood dead-slave N: blood battle-sweat One reference for this kenning comes from the epic poem, Beowulf. As Beowulf is in fierce combat with Grendel's mother, he makes mention of shedding much battle-sweat. N: Beowulf ...
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Old Man Winter, personification of winter. Frau Holle Germanic mother frost. Skaði (sometimes anglicized as Skadi, Skade, or Skathi) is a jötunn and goddess associated with bowhunting, skiing, winter, and mountains in Norse mythology; Three Friends of Winter in Chinese art, the plum, bamboo and pine. Nane Sarma, Grandma Frost, Iranian folklore.