Common Images in China's Poems and Their Examples

Lilacs: elegant, sad and weak (bananas don't show lilacs)

Month: Missing (* * * tears at the bright moon)

Dusk: desolation and loneliness (buried by the coming night)

Chrysanthemum: noble, desolate and weak (under the hedge of chrysanthemum picking)

May: Arrogant and practical (arrogant Mei has no flowers on her back)

Bamboo: there are solar terms, clanking iron bones and modesty (modest bamboo has curved leaves)

Water/river/river: continuous sadness (looking back at the blue waves and chasing the sky)

Lotus: muddy but not dirty, not colluding with the secular (for Du)

Peony: rich and enchanting (peony loves many people)

Peach blossom: simple and quiet, sad, charming and chaste (still peach blossom face)