Listen to this article雪梅
（二首其一）
卢梅坡[1]
梅雪争春未肯降[2]，
骚人[3]搁笔[4]费评章[5]。
梅须逊[6]雪三分白，
雪却输[7]梅一段香。
注释：
[1] 卢梅坡：宋代诗人。这是一首比较梅和雪的诗，雪白梅香，各有千秋。诗人似乎认为梅胜于雪，可见艺术评论是主观的，不是客观科学。
[2] 降：降服，服输。
[3] 骚人：诗人。
[4] 搁笔：停笔。
[5] 评章：评论。
[6] 逊：逊色。
[7] 输：不及。
Mume and Snow (I)
Lu Meipo
The mume blossoms and snow vie in announcing spring;
A poet knows not in whose praises he should sing.
The mume blossoms are not so white as winter snow;
In fragrance snow can’t match mume blossoms when they blow.
雪梅[1]
（二首其二）
卢梅坡
有梅无雪不精神[2]，
有雪无诗俗了人[3]。
日暮诗成天又雪，
与梅并作十分春[4]。
注释：
[1] 《千家诗》注说：“精神，丰韵也。此诗人继评梅雪之后，又作此以解之。言梅虽清香，若无雪以衬之，其丰韵则不精神矣。有雪有梅，如无诗以评之，不亦居然俗子哉！日既暮而诗成，天又雪矣，吹香映色，点染先春，共作十分春色也。”这第二首诗写梅雪和诗人的关系，说明三者都很高雅，没有诗就俗了，这是古代知识分子的看法。
[2] 精神：神采风韵。
[3] 俗了人：使人感到俗气。
[4] 春：春色。
Mume and Snow (II)
Lu Meipo
We cannot know mume blossom’s cold-proof without snow;
Nor can a poet without verse his feeling show.
Only when snow falls at sunset and a verse is made,
Before mume blossoms can we say spring’s fully displayed.
《雪梅二首》是南宋诗人卢梅坡（有争议）创作的一组七言绝句。这两首诗阐述了梅、雪、诗三者的关系，缺一不可，结合在一起，才能组成美丽的春色。第一首诗前两句写梅雪争春，要诗人评判，后两句是诗人对梅与雪的评语。第二首诗首句写梅与雪之间的关系，次句写雪与诗之间的关系。后两句写梅、雪与诗之间的关系，梅花开放而还没下雪，所以还缺乏诗意。两首诗写得妙趣横生，富有韵味。
“Mume and Snow” is a group of seven lines composed by the poet Lu Meipo (disputed) in the Southern Song Dynasty. These two poems illustrate the relationship between plum, snow and poetry, which are indispensable and combined together to make up beautiful spring colors. The first two lines of the first poem write about plum and snow competing for spring and asking the poet to judge them, and the last two lines are the poet’s comments on plum and snow. The first line of the second poem writes about the relationship between plum and snow, and the second line writes about the relationship between snow and poetry. The last two lines write about the relationship between plum, snow and poetry. The plum blossoms are open while it has not yet snowed, so it still lacks poetry. The two poems are written in a wonderful and rhythmic way.
