What do you mean by allusions? Is allusion a rhetorical device?

Quoting is a rhetorical device, that is, quoting allusions. Allusions are common in poetry. Allusions can enrich and implicitly express related contents and ideas by quoting stories or words in ancient books.

Use examples to illustrate the meaning of allusions, that is, ancient stories (which can be true or fictional) or previous chapters and sentences. Because a story or an article is very rich in content, it is possible to express rich thoughts and feelings with few words and all the meanings of that story or article. Therefore, in ancient poetry, allusions abound.

For example:

Li Shangyin shed tears.

Yongxiang resented for many years, leaving his feelings behind and thinking about the storm all day.

There are infinite marks on the bamboo in Xiangjiang River, which are sprinkled in front of the first monument.

People went to Qiu Zi to enter the fort, and soldiers heard songs at night.

Chaolai Bashui Bridge asked, but I didn't send Yuke to the green robe.

This poem takes tears as the theme and tells all kinds of sad things in a person's life. The first six sentences use a series of allusions, namely, falling out of favor, recalling the distant past, feeling death, feeling sad for autumn and being hurt. Seven or eight sentences are about the blue robe scholar sending senior officials to Ke Yu, and the bitter tears flowing into his heart are stronger than the first six sentences.

Usage is as follows:

1, Yongxiang: refers to the long lane used to imprison the wrong concubines or maids in the palace of the Han Dynasty. Historical Records: "It was Mrs. Qi who was imprisoned forever."

2. Bamboo Scar on Xiangjiang River: According to legend, Shun Di died in Hunan, and his two concubines came to offer their condolences, leaving tears on the bamboo.

3. Constitutionally defending the North: yang hu was an official in the Jin Dynasty, benefiting one party. After his death, people wept bitterly and built a monument for him on the fairy mountain.

4. People go to Zitai: it means that Wang Zhaojun married the Xiongnu and went out of the Han Palace. The third of Du Fu's "Five Poems on Epics": "She went out from the Purple Palace into the desert and now she has become a green grave in the twilight."

5. Remnants of Chu Account: It refers to the story that Xiang Yu, who defeated the overlord of Chu, was besieged by Liu Bang, and heard that he was besieged on all sides and was uneasy.

Poetry 1 and Li Shangyin, a Jinse in Tang Dynasty

Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, was bewitched by butterflies, and cuckoo crowed in the imperial spring.

In fact, Zhuang Zhou knew that he only longed for the butterfly of freedom, and hoped that the emperor's beautiful heart and actions could touch Du Fu.

The allusion is: Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he turned into a butterfly and flew vividly, forgetting that he was a "Zhuang Zhou". Later, when he woke up, it was Zhuang Zhou, and I don't know where the butterfly went.

Wang Di was the legendary monarch of Shu in the later Zhou Dynasty. He retired from Zen, but it was a pity that the country died. After death, the soul turns into a bird and cries at the end of spring. As for the bleeding in the mouth, his voice was sad and touching, and he was named Du Fu.

2. It's hard to get to Li Bai in Tang Dynasty.

I will sit on a fishing rod and lean lazily by the stream, but I suddenly dream of sailing a boat towards the sun.

Like Lu Shang fishing in the stream, waiting for an opportunity to make a comeback, Yi Yin was hired by Shang Tang.

The allusion is: I once fished on the Panxi River in Weishui, and I met a businessman who helped Zhou destroy it. Yi Yin once dreamed that he passed by the sun and the moon by boat, and was later hired by Shang Tang to help businessmen out in the summer.

3. "The first meeting in Yangzhou will reward Lotte"-Liu Yuxi in Tang Dynasty

People come back. Like people in Michelle, I can only play the flute, and I am disappointed.

I miss my old friend and recite my flute in vain. It's not the old days to come back after a long time.

The allusion is "Wendy Fu", which refers to "Thinking of Old Fu" by Xiang Embroidery in the Western Jin Dynasty. At the end of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms, Xiang Xiu's good friends Ji Kang and Lu An were killed because they were dissatisfied with Sima's usurpation of power. Later, Xiang embroidery passed by the former residences of Ji Kang and Lu An, and heard neighbors playing flutes, which evoked memories of old friends.

"Rotten Ke people" refers to Jin Wang Ren. According to legend, the king of Jin went up the mountain to chop wood, and when he saw two boys playing chess, he stopped to watch. By the end of the game, the handle of the axe was rotten. When I returned to the village, I realized that one hundred years had passed and all my contemporaries had died.