It looks like a flower but not a flower, it looks like a fog but not a fog. It embodies a hazy, real and illusory feeling. "Hua Fei Hua Mist Fei Mist" is the first sentence in "Hua Fei Hua" by Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty. The full text is:
Flowers are not flowers, fog is not mist.
It comes at midnight and goes away at dawn.
How long has it been like a spring dream?
Going like a cloud in the morning, there is no place to look for.
The translation of this poem is: Like a flower but not a flower, like a mist but not a mist, arriving at midnight and leaving at dawn. When it comes, it feels like a short and beautiful spring dream, and when it leaves, it feels like clouds in the morning with nowhere to look for.
This poem expresses the emotion that life is like a dream, like fog or lightning, and expresses a kind of remembrance and regret for the beautiful people and things that have existed in life but have disappeared. .
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Bai Juyi (772～846), a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The courtesy name is Lotte and the name is Xiangshan Jushi. Born in Xinzheng, Henan, he was originally from Taiyuan (now part of Shanxi) and later moved to Xiagui (now northeast of Weinan, Shaanxi). Zhenyuan Jinshi, awarded the title of Secretary Provincial Secretary. During the Yuanhe period, he served as Dr. Zuo Yiyi and Zuo Zanshan. Later, he offended the powerful and was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima because he petitioned to severely arrest the murderer who assassinated Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng.
In the early years of Changqing, he was appointed as the governor of Hangzhou, and in the early years of Baoli, he was appointed as the governor of Suzhou. Later, he became the minister of the Ministry of punishment. In literature, he advocated that "articles should be combined to suit the occasion, and songs and poems should be combined to suit the situation." He was an advocate of the New Yuefu Movement. The language of his poems is popular, and he is known as the "Poetry Demon" and the "Poetry King". Together with Yuan Zhen, he is also called "Yuan Bai", and with Liu Yuxi, he is also called "Liu Bai". There is "Bai's Changqing Collection" handed down from generation to generation.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Hua Fei Hua