Bixing is a common skill in ancient poetry. Generally speaking, "Bi" is a metaphor, a metaphor to visualize people or things, which makes its characteristics more distinct and prominent. "Xing" is to rise, that is, to use other things as the starting point of poetry to arouse the content to be sung. "Bi" and "Xing" are often used.
"Bi" and "Xing" are both rhetorical methods and forms of thinking. "Bi" has more literary factors, is to use foreign things to understand people, and has more ethical functions. "Xing" has more artistic factors and goes beyond the category of ethics. It directly connects everything with human self, and between self and nature, there are two kinds of reflections: "the realm with me" and "the realm without me".
Expand the materials
Use of "Bi" and "Xing" in the teaching materials:
Classical poems in the People's Education Edition are mainly concentrated in the third volume of senior high school Chinese. Let's take a look at the "Bi" and "Xing" sentences:
1. "The mulberry is not falling, but its leaves are flourishing. There is no food for mulberries. Mulberries fall, but they are yellow. (Wei Feng for Self-protection)
Here, there are both "comparison" and "prosperity". More artistic charm than simple "Xing" or "Bi". The poet used mulberry leaves as a metaphor to describe the transformation of abandoned wives from youthful glow to youthful death. The contrast between the mulberry leaves "Woruo" and "Huang Yan" not only implies that the heroine's appearance changes from youth to aging, but also symbolizes that the love between the heroine and "Meng" changes from prosperity to decline. The addiction of women to ungrateful men caused by eating mulberries by doves is full of sadness and sorrow.
2. "Peacock flies southeast, wandering in five miles" ("Peacock flies southeast")
Here, the poet symbolizes the love and attachment of Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi with the peacock flying south but unwilling to be divorced and separated. There are both "comparison" and "interest", which sets a sentimental mood for the whole poem.
3. "Like the morning dew, it's hard to go to Japan", "When will it be over when it's as clear as the moon" and "The mountains are never too high and the water is never too deep" (Short Songs)
In these three places, only "comparison" is used, "morning dew" is used to mean that life is fleeting, and "as clear as the moon" is used to mean that Goldman Sachs is virtuous.
4. "I wonder why my inlaid harp has fifty strings, each with its flower-like fret an interval of youth" ("Jinse")
Here, we celebrate the Chinese New Year with Jinse. Shang Yin died at the age of less than fifty, so he used the "fifty strings" to rise, which was a metaphor for his life and triggered the following thoughts of "one string and one column".