"Wan Zi Qian Hong" literally means describing flowers as having a great variety of colors and being brilliantly colorful. Later, it was extended to describe a scene of rich diversity and prosperity. This idiom comes from Zhu Xi's poem "Spring Day" of the Song Dynasty: "It is easy to recognize the face of the east wind; ten thousand purples and a thousand reds are always spring." In the poem, the blooming of hundreds of flowers in spring is used as a metaphor for the revival of all things and a scene full of vitality. In modern Chinese, it is often used to describe the scene in a spring garden where hundreds of flowers compete in beauty, and it is also used as a metaphor for prosperity in fields such as literature and art, the economy, and society. It is used in a wide range of scenarios, such as describing the brilliance and colorfulness of festivals and celebrations, the flourishing of culture and the arts, and the vitality of the market economy. Its emotional tone is positive and commendatory, carrying a sense of praise and joy, and giving people a feeling of abundant vitality and hope.
📝 Example
1. Spring has arrived, and the park is ablaze with a riot of colorful flowers, with visitors weaving through like a dense fabric. (Describing a rich and brilliant profusion of floral colors)
2. Since the reform and opening up, literary and artistic creation has shown a flourishing scene of a hundred flowers blooming in vibrant diversity. (Metaphor for a rich, colorful, and thriving state of affairs)