What does the poem "Good years must be remembered, just as oranges grow green" mean?

The poem "When the year is good, you must remember the orange, yellow and green" means that you must remember the best scenery of the year, that is, in the late autumn and early winter when the oranges are golden and green.

This sentence comes from Su Shi's To Liu Jingwen. The original text is as follows:

The lotus flower withered, so did the lotus leaf holding the rain, and only the branches of chrysanthemum stood proudly against the frost.

Good years must be remembered, it is orange.

Translation:

The lotus flower withered, even the lotus leaf holding the rain withered, and only the flower branch that defeated the chrysanthemum stood proudly in the frost. You must remember that the best scenery in a year is in the late autumn and early winter when oranges are golden and green.

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Creation background

This poem was written by Su Shi when he was the magistrate of Hangzhou in the fifth year of Yuan You, Song Zhezong (1090). When Su Shi met Liu in Hangzhou, Liu was 58 years old. After Su Shi tried his best to protect the imperial court, Liu Cai got a little promotion. I don't want Wen Jing to die in just two years. Su Shi felt that Liu Yisheng was bumpy, so he wrote this poem according to the scenery.

This poem was written in the fifth year of Yuan You (A.D. 1090) and is an encouraging poem for my good friend Liu Jingwen. In the first half of this poem, it is said that "the lotus flower is exhausted" or it is necessary to maintain the integrity of pride and frost. In the second half, it is only temporary to encourage friends to be optimistic and not depressed through "orange, orange and green". Express the author's broad mind, encourage and support friends in the same predicament, and express their feelings with lofty artistic conception.