The ancients believed that the spring wind was trustworthy, came as expected, and urged a hundred flowers to bloom, called "flower trade wind". Spring from "little cold" to "valley rain" experience four months, a total of eight solar terms, every five days for a wait, before and after the twenty-four flowers trade winds, with plum blossoms at the head, neem flowers at the end. This set of twelve pages, a total of twenty-four paintings, painted twenty-four flower trade winds. (From national palace museum in Taipei)
Small cold first wait plum blossom, second wait camellia
Little cold three waiting daffodils, big cold one waiting Ruixiang
Big cold two orchids, three waiting for alum
Spring is waiting for spring and cherry for the second
Three seasons for spring and one for cauliflower in the rain
Rainwater two season apricot blossoms, three season plum flowers
Stung one peach blossom, two waited for the begonia
Sting three roses, spring equinox and begonias
The vernal equinox waits for the second pear blossom and the third waits for the magnolia
Qingming one waiting for tung flowers, two waiting for wheat flowers
Qingming three wait for willow flowers, valley rain one wait for peony
Gu Yu two seasons of the grass, three waiting for neem flowers
Dong Yu (1740-1818), also known as Xijing, Cane Forest, No. 1 Garlin, Yuwen Gong, a native of Fuyang, Zhejiang, was the eldest son of Dong Bangda. Qianlong Twenty-eight Years (1763) Chuanxu, official university scholar. In the early years of Jiaqing, he was awarded a fellow of Dongge University. Yuwen Gong. Gongshi ancient words, calligraphy Zong Wang Xizhi, xianzhi, and can also be on a grain of sesame on the Zhuang book "the world is too peaceful" four characters. Shanshui inherits family learning, Yaxiu is dusty, late Song and Yuan, known as big and small Dong. For people and easy, a moment of coldness is more than his teaching method. Died at the age of seventy-nine.