If you want to make a profit, you can look forward to spring. What does it mean to spend time painting cakes in front of the mirror to satisfy your hunger?

1. If you want to make a profit, you can look forward to spring: it means that if you want to succeed, you must seize the good opportunity of spring. The metaphor is to seize the opportunity and not miss it. This poem comes from a farewell poem by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.

2, mirror flower water moon: refers to the moon in the water, flowers in the mirror. Metaphor is an illusory scene that cannot be touched. It also refers to the flexible and unpredictable artistic conception in poetry. The story of "Looking at the Moon in a Mirror" comes from the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Jiuling's "Feeling".

3, painting cakes to fill hunger: it means painting cakes to fill hunger. Metaphor is to comfort yourself with fantasy, or to deceive others. This idiom comes from The Biography of the Three Kingdoms Shu Wei Lu Yu.