What do you mean, quiet flowers and hidden moon?

Flowers in the mirror; The moon in the water. Metaphor is an illusory sight. It is also used to describe the so-called ethereal artistic conception that cannot be understood literally in poetry. As the name implies, flowers in the mirror, the moon in the water.

Jinghuayuan and Shuiyue refer to two different images respectively. No matter how beautiful a flower is, it is difficult to ponder and appreciate it. The moon in the water is just the shadow of the moon in the water, which is difficult to capture. This is a beautiful metaphor, but it is illusory and difficult to realize.

I like that kind of sharpening, that kind of color matching, that kind of illusion. -He Qifang's Dream Road

Extended data synonyms

1, a mirage

Metaphor is illusory; It can also be used to describe an imaginary but unrealistic fantasy. In calm seas, rivers, lakes, snowfields, deserts or Gobi, occasionally towering towers, city walls and trees appear in the air or "underground", which is called a mirage.

This illusion often appears on the sea surface of Penglai, China. The ancients attributed it to the dragon, exhaling and forming the tower wall, hence the name. Talking about "the legacy of Sui and Tang Dynasties", Li Zhan said: How long will this mirage last? "It's also a mirage. This is a mirage or something. How can it last?

2. Illusion

Nihility: emptiness; Vaguely: vaguely, as if nothing had happened. Describe emptiness. Refers to things that are invisible and intangible, but actually exist. Just like people's ideological realm. No sense of entity.

What's all this about ~, there are no gods and ghosts there! I never believed this. (Qing Wu Ren Jian's "Strange Status Quo Seen in Twenty Years" 25)

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