It means that a large area of reeds is green, and the dew in the morning turns into frost.
Origin: Guo Feng Qin Feng Jia Jian is one of China's ancient realistic poetry anthology The Book of Songs.
excerpts from the original text:
if you follow it, the road will be long. Swim back from it, in the middle of the water.
Jian Jian is growing, and the white dew is still fresh. The so-called Iraqis are in the water.
The reeds by the river are dense and numerous, and the dew has not dried in the morning. Where is the right person? Just beyond the river bank. Go to her against the current, the road is difficult to climb. Follow the running water to find her, as if in the water beach.
expanding information
this poem was once thought to be used to ridicule Qin Xianggong for not being able to consolidate his country with Zhou Li (Preface to Mao Shi and Zheng Jian), or to regret that it was impossible to attract reclusive sages (General Theory of the Book of Songs by Yao Jiheng and Primitive Book of Songs by Fang Yurun).
However, unlike most poems in The Book of Songs, which are often specific, there are no specific events and scenes in this poem, and even the gender of "Iraqi people" is difficult to identify. The above two understandings may have been based at the beginning, but these bases have not survived or are not convincing enough, so their conclusions are doubtful.
The annotators of the Book of Songs in the past dynasties often seek deeper, but get the opposite result. Moreover, "All history is contemporary history" (see the British philosopher and historian collingwood's Concept of History), and the interpretation of the text is also contemporary. Most modern scholars regard it as a love poem.
The emptiness of poetry brings trouble to interpretation, but it also expands the inclusive space of its connotation. When readers touch what is hidden behind the description object, they feel that the images in this poem are not only used by the poet to sing, but also contain some symbolic meanings. "On the water side" is a symbol of admiration, and Qian Zhongshu's "Pipe Cone Compilation" has been described in detail.
"back to the back", "back to swim", "the road is blocked and long" and "in the middle of the water" are just symbols of the difficulty and uncertainty of repeated pursuit. Poets search up and down, while Iraqis are faintly visible but still out of reach.
In The Romance of the West Chamber, Yingying couldn't combine with Zhang Sheng in Pujiu Temple because of her mother's restraint. She lamented that "people are far away from each other", and the poet in Qin Feng Jia Jian may feel the same way.
Baidu encyclopedia-Guofeng Qin Feng.