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Two orioles sing green willows,
A line of egrets flew into the sky,
The window contains autumn snow in Xiling,
Mambo Wu Dong Wan Li Ship.
[Notes]
1.
Heron: A water bird, the egret.
2.
Xiling: Minshan Mountain.
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Autumn snow: snow that does not melt all year round.
4.
Stop the car.
[Brief analysis]
This poem was written by Du Fu when he lived in Huanhuaxi Caotang, Chengdu, and * * * wrote four quatrains. This poem is the third of them, describing the spring scenery in front of Huanhuaxi Caotang.
This poem consists of two neat antitheses. The first two sentences, "Two orioles singing green willows and a row of egrets flying into the sky", are about moving scenery. In front of the hall, orioles sing among the green willows, and get a close look; Egrets fly into the sky, which is a kind of vision. The pictures of these scenes are colorful: yellow birds, green willows, snow-white egrets and blue sky, and the four colors are impressive. Not only the color, but also the sound, coupled with Ying Ge's euphemistic singing, is really a vibrant and beautiful scene.
The last two sentences, "The window contains the autumn snow in Xiling, and the boating gate in Wan Li, Wu Dong", describe the static scenery. The two verbs in the first two sentences are "Ming" and "Shang", and the last two sentences are "Han" and "Bo", which are dynamic and static. The third sentence is about the snow in Xiling, which is a vision. The word "Han" is personified, which is very appropriate and vivid; "Qian Qiu" points out a long time and shows its tranquility. The fourth sentence says that the boat in front of the door is close-up. "Berthing", berthing, but this berthing is a ship about to sail for Soochow, and there is movement in silence; "Wan Li" illustrates the vastness of space.
Every sentence of this poem contains a scene, in which the moving scene, the static scene, the close-up scene and the long-range scene alternately reflect each other, forming a colorful, beautiful and peaceful picture scroll, which is refreshing and never tires of reading.