Swallow is a symbol of spring, and there is no lack of love for spring among literati in past dynasties. They all expressed this love in their poems. "Counting the early warblers to warm the trees, their new swallows peck at the spring mud", "Mud melts the swallows, sand warms the flowers and sleeps".
Seeing swallows will naturally associate with spring, which is a kind of closeness and love for nature.
Similarly, seeing geese is what we call geese. Poets always touch the scene and write their feelings into their poems.
The poet who is traveling looks up at the geese and hears their songs, so he can't help but feel homesick. "When a person goes back to the wild goose, he thinks before spending time." "When he hears the wild goose at night, he will feel homesick and get sick during the New Year."
And my favorite song is Fan Zhongyan's "The Pride of Fisherman": "The scenery in Qiu Lai is different, so I don't pay attention to the geese in Hengyang". As a soldier guarding the border, anyone who doesn't want to return to his hometown as soon as possible, but defends his country and defends his country, calls for duty, and reveals a sense of heroism in his sadness.
In the traditional culture of China, geese have rich symbolic significance. Because geese migrate with the seasons and fly in groups in an orderly way, the ancients believed that geese had five excellent qualities: "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faithfulness", which were often recited in poems. The wild goose also symbolizes the meaning of spreading the book by the wild goose, and entrusts the deep friendship between people. For example, Bai Juyi's poem "The wind turns over a thousand waves, and the geese cross the sky." Expressed the poet's yearning for his friends.
In addition, Hongyan also represents acacia. Seeing Hongyan, there is no book to send, or complaining that Hongyan has broken his word. For example, Li Qingzhao's Plum with a Plum: "Whoever sends a brocade book in the clouds will return to the West Building next month." When will the returning Hongyan bring a principal book? Before the brocade book arrives, it is naturally "a kind of acacia, two places of leisure."
As far as the season is concerned, swallows mostly represent spring, and always shuttle through the poems of spring with a light posture, which is a kind of vitality, a kind of yearning and a kind of hope.
Wild geese are mostly used in autumn, often associated with autumn wind, fallen leaves, yellow flowers, frosty days, sunset, cold nights and other images, with a sense of desolation, loneliness and sadness.
In expressing emotions, swallows often express cheerful, joyful and beautiful feelings. For example, the swallow in Princess Zhu Huan is as pleasing as its name, and so are people. She always brings joy to people, and the place where she is is always lively, just like spring.
Wild geese are mostly used to convey loneliness and sorrow, sadness and hate of parting, homesickness and lovesickness.
In addition, "Yan" expresses love, and swallows always fly in pairs. As the Book of Songs says, "Yan Er is newly married, like a brother", "Yan Yan flies in the air and her son is sent to the wild." They all symbolize beautiful love.
Yan and Yan belong to migratory birds. Because of the same pronunciation, they are often confused in use. For example, the word "new swallow" in "A few early warblers compete for warm trees, whose new swallow pecks at spring mud" is easy to be written as "new swallow", and "Hengyang swallow goes without paying attention" in "Qiu Lai is blocked" is written as "Hengyang swallow goes", and so on. Therefore, to distinguish these two words correctly, we must understand the poet's thoughts and feelings about "Yan" and "Yan".
Similarly, when we study calligraphy, is the "silkworm head" in Lishu works a dovetail or a goose tail?
The silkworm-headed geese and the goose-tailed geese describe calligraphy as dignified and light.
Open the input method and input pinyin. The first one retrieved is "Papilio sericea". What happened?
The five thousand years of China's calligraphy involves the horizontal drawing of official script many times, and the subtitle of "Swallowtail with Silkworm Head" appears. This often happens when typing on a computer.
Then let's look at the tails of Yan and Yan. Yan's tail is bifurcated, while Yan's tail is integral.
It turns out that the writing of official script has the rule that "the silkworm heads and the geese tail, the geese don't fly in pairs, and the silkworm doesn't stand". It may be because the word "Swallow flies in unison" mistook "Wild geese don't fly in unison" for "Swallows don't fly in unison", so "Goose tail with silkworm head" was also mistaken for "Swallow tail with silkworm head".
In addition, "Yan" is also pronounced as "Yan", which is used for place names, such as Guo Yan, Yan Di and Ran Yan.
Two seemingly simple Chinese characters have such a huge amount of information and profound meaning. It can be seen that the Chinese character culture in China is extensive and profound.
Chinese characters are the heritage of the Chinese nation and an indispensable tool for human beings to inherit Chinese culture. After thousands of years of development and evolution, they have rich connotations and cultures.
Our ancestors left so much wealth to mankind, let us grow in words, temper in words, and draw wisdom and strength from them. It broadens our horizons, expands our direction and guides us to become better ourselves.
I love Chinese characters of our motherland, which contain profound cultural values of China.