秋水寒
[qiū shuĭ hán]
Literally means cold autumn river water - 'Qiu shui Han.' It conjures imagery evoking emotions of melancholy and solitude often associated with fall season. In traditional Chinese literary contexts, descriptions featuring chilly autumn scenes serve frequently as vehicles expressing somber thoughts relating especially loneliness, nostalgia and reflections over past events that once were significant personally held close within hearts now touched by time passage, emphasizing themes centered round fleeting nature inherent within all things beautiful present here momentarily then slipping gradually away forevermore unseen unseen.