1, the next day, the lotus leaf is infinitely blue, and the lotus reflected in the sun is not the same red. -Song Yang Wanli, Jingci Temple sent Lin Zifang. Interpretation: Lotus leaves are densely spread, connected with the blue sky, endless green; Graceful lotus flowers are in full bloom, especially bright and red under the sunshine.
2. The rain falls on the light thunder pool outside the willow, and the rain drops the sound of lotus. -Song Ouyang Xiu's "Rain outside the willow in Linjiang County". Commentary: There was a light thunder outside the willow forest, and suddenly jade spilled on the pond, and the rain hit the lotus leaf, making a fine sound.
3. Fish plays lotus leaf east, fish plays lotus leaf west, fish plays lotus leaf south and fish plays lotus leaf north. -Han Anonymous "Jiangnan". Interpretation: Fish plays lotus leaf east, fish plays lotus leaf west, fish plays lotus leaf south and fish plays lotus leaf north.
4, Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaf. -Han Anonymous "Jiangnan". Interpretation: Lotus can be picked on the water in the south of the Yangtze River, and the lotus leaves are so lush.
Classification of poetry
First, ancient poetry
Classical poetry, also known as ancient style or ancient poetry. People in the Tang Dynasty believed that the poems written by the representative poets from the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties belonged to the ancient style. The greatest feature of ancient poetry is that it is not bound by the rhythm of modern poetry Therefore, all poems that are not bound by the rhythm of modern poetry are called ancient poems today.
Second, Yuefu
Yuefu was originally used to accompany music, including "Qu", "Ci", "Song" and "Xing", collectively referred to as Yuefu or Yuefu poetry, which belongs to the category of classical poetry. The ancient poems written by poets in the Tang Dynasty imitating this style are also called Yuefu.
Third, modern poetry.
Modern poetry, called modern poetry in Tang Dynasty, is represented by regular poetry. Because of strict requirements, it is also called metrical poetry.
Fourth, quatrains
Compared with metrical poems, the sentences and words of quatrains are less than half. Five-character quatrains are four sentences with 20 words, and seven-character quatrains are four sentences with 28 words. Quatrains can be divided into ancient quatrains and metrical quatrains: 1. Ancient quatrains came into being before modern poetry, so they can be used to balance the rhyme and even rhyme, so they belong to the category of ancient poetry. 2. Rhyme, also known as near rhyme, must follow the meter of modern poetry, and generally can only rhyme in a flat way. Formally speaking, rhyme is equal to half rhyme, which naturally belongs to modern poetry.