📖 Meaning
Winter departs and spring returns to the land, vegetation sprouts, and the earth fills with vitality and new life. It is also used metaphorically to describe a favorable turnaround in circumstances or a situation improving after hardship.
📜 Origin Story
The phrase appears as a horizontal inscription (横额) in Chapter 16 of the novel 'Red Crag' (《红岩》), written by Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyin in the mid-twentieth century. In the story, prisoners in the third room of a building compose a couplet quoting the ancient poet's lines 'The garden's spring colors cannot be contained; a single red apricot branch extends over the wall,' with the inscription '大地春回' serving as its horizontal title. The phrase draws on the classical imagery of spring's return to express hope and renewal amid oppression.
💡 Example Usage
严冬过去，大地春回，万物重新焕发出生机。
After the bitter winter passes, spring returns to the earth and all things burst into renewed life.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 大地春回
- Pinyin: dà dì chūn huí
- Literal Translation: great, earth, spring, returns
- Category: Recovery
- Characters: 4