(Meng Haoran)
In the spring morning, I woke up easily.
Birds are singing everywhere around me.
But now I remember that night, that storm,
I wonder how many flowers have been broken.
This is a lyric poem known to all women and children since ancient times. Meng Haoran (698-740) was the first famous poet who wrote landscape poems in the Tang Dynasty.
This poem does not use the general technique of directly describing the spring scene in front of him, but captures the typical spring breath and expresses his feelings of loving and cherishing spring through his auditory feeling and association with "Spring Dawn" (spring morning) when he wakes up. The first two sentences of this poem were written by a poet who didn't know it was dawn because of his dream on a spring night. When he woke up, he heard birds singing everywhere outside the house. The poet cherishes ink as gold, and expresses the vibrant scene of Chunxiao with only one sentence: "Birds are singing around". However, people can know that it is the cheerful songs of these birds that awaken the lazy and sleepy poet. It is conceivable that it is already a beautiful spring outside the house at this time, and we can appreciate the poet's praise for spring. It is this lovely scene of spring dawn that makes the poet naturally turn to the association of the third sentence and the fourth sentence in the poem: I heard a burst of rain last night, and now how many flowers are shaken in the courtyard? Linked to the first two sentences of the poem, this night's storm is not a storm, but a gentle breeze and drizzle, which sends the poet into a sweet dream and cleans the morning brighter, which is not hateful. But in the end, it will shake off the spring flowers and take them away. Therefore, the phrase "I don't know how many flowers have been folded" implies the poet's faint sadness and infinite reverie about the passing of spring scenery.
The reason why this poem is deeply loved by people lies in its clear language and catchy tone, as well as its closeness to life, blend of scenes and profound implications.