"Hanging down and drinking clear dew" comes from Heather's Cicada. The whole poem means that cicadas hang down their tentacles like hat tassels, sucking sweet dew, and its cries are constantly coming from the sparse branches of buttonwood trees. Cicada's voice travels far because it is high, not by the power of autumn wind.
cicada
Don Yu Shinan.
Cicada droops like a tassel on a hat, its tentacles suck the clear dew, and its voice spreads from the branches of the straight Shulang tree.
Cicada is far away from cicada because cicada is on a tall tree, not relying on autumn wind.
Appreciate:
The first sentence of the poem is ostensibly about the shape and feeding habits of cicadas, but in fact it contains metaphors everywhere. This unity of "expensive" and "clear" is precisely because the "clear" in three or four sentences does not need to be contrasted with "expensive", and the brushwork is quite ingenious. In the second sentence, the cicada sound is far away, and the "flowing" cicada sound is long and melodious. The word "Chu" is used to visualize the meaning conveyed by the cicada sound, as if people feel the loudness and strength of the cicada sound.
The last two sentences of the poem are the finishing touch of the whole poem. It is a discussion of poetry on the basis of the last two sentences. The author deduces a truth from the fact that cicadas spread thousands of miles, not the autumn wind: people with noble character can be famous for thousands of miles without some outside support (such as the help of powerful people).
Yu Shinan was born in the Tang Dynasty, the most prosperous poetry culture in China. He was a politician, thinker, poet and calligrapher in the early Tang Dynasty in China. The articles he wrote were accurate in words and vivid in words, which won unanimous praise. Even Emperor Taizong praised his articles, which shows his profound skill. It is reported that Yu Shinan is not as gentle as many literati, but looks like a thin scholar. Yu Shinan grew up physically strong, with a height of more than eight feet. In modern times, he is definitely a handsome man.