The famous sayings about the Three Friends of Suihan (pine, bamboo, and plum) are:

1. Pine

1. The heavy snow presses the green pine, and the green pine is straight and straight. ——Modern·Chen Yi's "Green Pine"?

Translation: A thick layer of snow is pressing on the pine branches, but the green pine is still tall and straight.

2. Although peaches and plums are lonely when they are in full bloom, they will become green after snow and frost. ——Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty, "Ti Xiaosong"

Translation: Although you were unknown when the peaches and plums were blooming, you looked so lush behind when the frost and snow fell.

3. At that time, people did not know the Lingyun tree, and they waited until Lingyun began to grow. ——"Little Pine" by Du Xunhe of the Tang Dynasty

Translation: Those people did not recognize the trees that could tower into the clouds at that time. People did not say it was tall until it towered into the clouds.

2. Bamboo

1. The wind and snow of Xiao Ran can be broken but not humiliated. ——Su Shi of the Song Dynasty, "Four Poems on Taiyu, Sophora japonica, Bamboo, and Cypress·Bamboo"

Translation: Bamboo looks cold and desolate in the wind and snow, but although it can be broken, it cannot be insulted.

2. Bamboo is not tolerant of miscellaneous things and aims to become a successful person. ——Yuan Mei's "Bamboo" of the Qing Dynasty.

Translation: Bamboo’s habit does not like to be mixed with other things, and its ambition is to stand out from the crowd and soar into the blue clouds.

3. Water with its calm nature is my friend, and bamboo with its ability to relieve heart deficiency is my teacher. ——Bai Juyi, Tang Dynasty, "Writing on the Pool and Under the Bamboo".

Translation: Water can make people indifferent, so I use water as a friend; bamboo knows how to be modest and humble, so it can be my teacher.

3. Plum blossoms

1. How can you get the fragrant fragrance of plum blossoms without going through a bone-chilling cold? ——"Ode to a Discourse in the Hall" by Zen Master Huang He of the Tang Dynasty

Translation: Without going through the bone-chilling cold, how can there be the fragrance of plum blossoms?

2. There are several plum trees in the corner, and Ling Han blooms alone. ——Wang Anshi, Song Dynasty, "Plum Blossoms"

Translation: There are a few plum blossoms in the corner, blooming alone in the severe cold.

3. It is scattered into mud and crushed into dust, but only the fragrance remains the same. ——Lu You, Song Dynasty, "Bu Shuzi·Yong Mei"

Translation: Even if it withers, is ground into soil, and turns into dust, the plum blossoms still emit wisps of fragrance as usual.