北国还在春寒料峭，南国已然绿色满园。飞机在滨海的汕头降落后，在奔往汕头大学的路上，见红色的木棉花无声无息地飘荡街头，正在感叹南国春短之际，南国的友人纠正我对南国之在的无知说："这种花开得很早，它与其他花卉习性不同；别的花儿是以开花迎接春天，它是以花朵坠地，来点缀南国春天的...... When there is a chill in the air in early spring in North China; the South China has been covered with green. The airplane landed in the coastal city Shantou, I saw kapoks flying in the red street quietly on the way to Shantou University. When I was sighing that the South China was too short, my friend from South China corrected me that: Unlike other flowers, the flower blossoms early; but it is interspersed with South China by dropping flowers...