In preparation for their day of glory, the rhododendron's flower buds develop fully by November or December. Everything is ready, waiting only for the warmth of the next year's spring. When the winter snows melt into sliding, falling pearls of crystal water, all the explosive power stored up in the buds bursts out in a single spring day, and billows of fiery blossom course up the mountainsides.
為了一夕絢爛，前一年十一、二月，杜鵑花苞已發育完成，一切就緒，就等來年天氣回暖，冬雪化成冰清晶瑩的水珠滑落，花苞蓄積的無窮爆發力，就在一個春日，全體爆炸開來，而後，沿著山脈由下而上，一波波引燃。