In ancient poetry, the phoenix tree symbolizes noble and beautiful character. For example, "Feng Huangming is gone, and he is in a high position. Wutong was born in Chaoyang (The Book of Songs Daya Juana). " Here, the poet sings with the phoenix, and the song flies over the hills; The phoenix tree grows wildly, covered with brilliant sunrise, symbolizing noble and beautiful character. In ancient times, there was a saying that "planting tung attracts phoenix".
2. Loyal love
In ancient times, it was said that the phoenix tree was a male tree, and the phoenix tree was a female tree. The phoenix tree grew together with the old, lived and died together, and its branches were tall and straight, with deep roots, which became a symbol of loyal love in the poet's pen.
3. Loneliness and sadness
The wind blows the leaves, and the rain is like a phoenix tree, which is a sad scene. The phoenix tree has become a lonely and sad image in the works of literati. Such as "lonely west wing, bright moon like a hook." The lonely phoenix tree locks the deep courtyard in the clear autumn (Li Yu's "Hui Huan"), vividly writing the lonely phase of the monarch who died in the lonely deep courtyard.
4. Leave your feelings.
Among the poems of Tang and Song Dynasties, Wu Tong's feelings of parting and the images and meanings of blaming others are the most. For example, in Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow, "Peach and plum bloom, the spring breeze blows, the autumn rain falls, and the willow blossoms bloom", the poet compares the past grand occasion with the present desolation, and depicts the desolate scene after Tang Gaozong lost Yang Guifei because of the Anshi Rebellion.
The rich images contained in Indus are analyzed as follows:
First, plant pine and cypress in the east and west, and plant phoenix trees in the left and right?
Buttonwood tree is tall and straight, with delicate wood and smooth trunk, which is regarded as good wood. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, the phoenix tree was associated with the legendary king of birds. "Feng Huangming yi, in Gorkon. Wutongsheng, in the morning. " (The Book of Songs) There is still a saying among the people: "Plant a plane tree and recruit golden phoenix." Phoenix with noble and holy temperament only chooses phoenix tree to inhabit, which shows the supernatural nature of phoenix tree. ?
Later, the characteristics of phoenix living in phoenix tree evolved into the idiom "Good birds choose wood to live", and the phoenix here was replaced by other birds. For example, Yu Shinan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, replaced the supreme phoenix with Qiu Chan in his poem "Cicada": "Hang your head and drink dew, and smell Shu Tong." The ancients thought that cicadas lived high above water and dew, and their natural nature was noble. The phoenix tree perched in cicada has a noble image and is even more remarkable. Because the phoenix tree stands upright, aloof and noble, people put it together with pine and cypress, and call it a beautiful material. ?
Flowers and trees are often used to express love and yearning. The phoenix tree with green branches symbolizes the deep feelings of the couple. In ancient times, it was said that the phoenix tree was male, the paulownia tree was female, and the phoenix tree grew up with the old and lived and died together. There's a saying in China that "when the Laka tree is ripe, the mandarin duck will die together". Therefore, the phoenix tree is often used in poetry to express the undying love between men and women. The last paragraph of Yuefu folk song Peacock Flying Southeast is the most imaginative and romantic, which uses the above meaning. "Plant conifers and cypresses in the east and trees in the left and right. Branches cover each other and leaves communicate with each other. There are two birds in the forest, calling themselves Yuanyang. Raise your head and sing to each other until you reach the fifth watch every night. " This wonderful and magical picture not only embodies people's yearning for pure love and happy life, but also gives vent to people's dissatisfaction and indignation with reality in a deified way.
Second, Shu Tong Zhang?
Reading Li He's "Li Ping You Yin", people will never forget the author's magical description of music and appreciation of Li Ping's superb playing skills. So, where does this music "Kunshan is full of jade, Furong cries and Lan Xiang laughs" come from? ? Wu Si Dredging. Maple, also called cork, can be used to make pianos. The most famous one is Cai Yong, a Han Chinese, who made a symphonic piano with Chinese parasol trees. According to Hanshu, Cai Yong met someone cooking with paulownia in Wudi. Cai Yong, who knows the rhythm, heard the abnormal sound of paulownia burning and bursting, and concluded that it was good wood. So he rescued this piece of paulownia and made it into a piano. Its voice is very beautiful, because its tail is burnt, so it is called "symphonic piano". With the exquisite silk of Emperor Wu and the elegant tung in Shu, plus the superb skills of Li Ping, it can certainly play the artistic effect of "Nuwa refining stones to make up the sky and stir up the autumn rain".
Third, the phoenix tree is raining, at dusk, bit by bit. This time, what a sad sentence? ?
The phoenix tree leaves fall early, and the ancients said that "the phoenix tree leaves fall, and the world knows autumn." The ancients had a feeling of sorrowful autumn, seeing things hurt, and seeing leaves fall made autumn more meaningful. "Lonely west wing, such as hook. Lonely phoenix tree deep courtyard locks clear autumn. " (Southern Tang Dynasty Li Yu's "Hui Huan") The imprisoned Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty was naturally somewhat sad. The cold moonlight shone on the bare buttonwood, which added to the sadness of the people in the courtyard. ?
"Autumn wind and autumn rain make people sad", and the tung leaves in autumn rain add to the melancholy and lonely mood. "Under the buttonwood tree, it rains at night. Leaving feelings is the hardest thing. A leaf, a voice, and empty footsteps fall into the light. " (Tang Wen Ting Yun's "More Leakage") The sound of rain combined with tung leaves, one after another, ringing in the ear and dripping in the heart, how can it not make a thoughtful woman feel lonely after leaving? The representative work of Li Qingzhao, a poetess in the Song Dynasty, draws out the disappointment of "desolation" with the last point of "phoenix tree" and "drizzle", and expresses the infinite sadness of poetess after her husband's death. People often use the word "mourning" to describe this state of mind, but for this elderly widow in extreme grief, "how can a word of mourning win at this time?" ?
Perhaps the image of "Indus drizzle" can always evoke people's full sadness and infinite reverie. Bai Pu, a famous playwright in Yuan Dynasty, named the love tragedy between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei Wu Tongyu, which made the tragedy in the title of the play enveloped the whole play.
Beauty is hard to tell you, just like the tall and straight branches of the plane tree, the good bird that has lived on the ground for a long time, the sound of the piano is endless, the sound of the autumn rain hitting the tung leaves, and the touching stories staged around it will touch people's heartstrings, enlighten people's feelings, and bring people rich imagination and full inspiration. No wonder Yu Dafu, a modern writer, is obsessed with the dream of autumn phoenix tree in his old capital.