Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty
During the day, cherish Fang Zi and cover the door, and join hands with the urn to fill the moss basin.
Rouge washes away the shadow of the autumn platform, and ice and snow absorb the soul.
You know that flowers are brighter when you are pale, but how can you get jade without trace when you are worried?
If you want to pay for Bai Di, you should be clean. If you don't talk about Tingting, you will faint.
Translation:
Take care of fragrant flowers, close the courtyard door during the day, and personally sprinkle the mossy flowerpot with a pitcher. On the autumn steps, there is an elegant figure washed away by pink, and the dew-covered steps attract the snow-like elves. Only when it is bright can it show that the begonia flower is particularly bright. How can you keep the flowers from showing tears if you worry too much? In order to repay the deification and education of autumn, it is entirely because of its purity that Tingting has reached dusk in silence.
Ode to Bai Hai Tang is from A Dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. It is a seven-character poem written by the novel character Xue Baochai. The first couplet of this poem reveals "identity"; The antithesis of couplets is a metaphor for the ending of Xue Baochai.
Neck couplets use rich images and novel syntax to describe the "white" and "clean" of begonia. The couplet shows that Xue Baochai "plays the fool". This poem by Xue Baochai is a metaphor for flowers and describes her dignified and reserved manners as a rich and powerful woman. The words used in the whole poem are appropriate, implicit and vigorous.
Extended data:
The background of Bai Hai Tang Ode;
Ode to Bai Hai Tang is from the 37th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, and it is the work of Haitang Poetry Society initiated by Jia Tanchun. Jia Tanchun, Xue Baochai, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu completed four works, among which this poem was written by Xue Baochai.
At this time, the Haitang Poetry Society seems to be a "peaceful and prosperous time" in the Grand View Garden, but in fact it is a fierce struggle between orthodoxy and heresy; The life-and-death struggle between the official and the ordinary keeps happening.
Feudal nobles and their descendants are enjoying flowers and drinking in this actually dangerous "paradise", and their premonition of decline is also invading their enjoyment life.
Ode to Bai Hai Tang is a poem about objects. In the image of the object, there are different characters with different ideological tendencies. Xue Baochai expressed her adherence to "three obedience and four virtues" and feudal moral norms by praising Begonia.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Bai Yong Begonia