Appreciation of Yan Boshe's View of Mei

By describing the color, flower and shape of plum blossom, the author praises the beauty in plum blossom bones.

Plum blossoms are as white as snow, and the flowers are clear and bone-penetrating. It says "Shangque". The three sentences of "opening like snow, thanking like snow, and being wonderful in flowers" focus on pen and ink, and write the beauty of plum blossom color with complex sentences and abbreviated numbers. Highlight the uniqueness of plum blossom color. The three sentences "Flowers are not in pistil, flowers are not in calyx, flowers are in bone" use the same expression as the first three sentences to write another unique aspect of plum blossom-flowers, telling people that the clear flowers of plum blossom are not from pistil or calyx, but from bone, which highlights the characteristics of plum blossom. Linked to "open like snow, thank like snow, beautiful flowers", the upper and lower couplets seem right or wrong, and the words are clever and seemingly unintentional, but in fact they are skillful in writing.

Xiaque depicts the charm and character of plum blossom with peach blossom as the contrast. "Take the wind in the stream, stay in the stream for the moon, and shame the peach blossom like blood", and set off the extraordinary charm of plum blossom and peach blossom more incisively and vividly in a comparative way. Plum blossoms not only monopolize the cool breeze and bright moon in the stream, but also detract from the color of the bright red peach blossom with shame, which shows that the temperament and charm of plum blossoms are extraordinary and refined. "Straight and generous, sparse and faint, there will always be general feelings", another major feature of writing plum blossoms, even if the branches and leaves are sparse and the flowers are faint, will eventually have an extraordinary feeling that kitsch flowers can't match. It is the noble character of plum blossom that the branches are sparse and the hedges fall, and the flowers are light and elegant.

In this poem of Yongmei, the poet wrote the extraordinary charm and noble character of plum blossom, which is actually a portrayal of his yearning personality. The poet pinned his interest on the noble character of plum blossom.