"When the cherry blossoms fall, the swallows return to their old friends" means that swallows will return to warm places at the right time, just like familiar old friends will return to their hometown, and old friends will reunite. This sentence is a metaphor for the joy of reunion after a long separation.
This sentence comes from Gui Youguang's essay Camellia in the Ming Dynasty. Camellia is also a five-character poem by Gui Youguang, which shows the author's love and yearning for beautiful things and a beautiful life, as well as his infinite admiration and appreciation for his noble character.
The original text of Camellia: Camellia is pregnant with strange qualities, and its green leaves are deep and thick. Red flowers often bloom in the snow. Although it is rich, it is not enchanting. When the year is cold, there is no fading, and it is also a spring breeze. I will order flowers, so as to draw up the three fairs. Mei Jun is special and clean, but he is the same as Uncle Yi.
Camellia contains a peculiar temperament, and its leaves are condensed with deep green. Camellia always blooms bright red flowers, but it is still in the snow. Camellia is as graceful and rich as peony, but it is not as flirtatious and enchanting as peony swaying in the wind. The flowers at the end of the cold season have not withered later than it, and camellia is also the first to open in cold winter. I want to re-evaluate the grade of flowers and list it as the three fair ones among flowers. Plum blossom has a strange temperament and is totally self-loving, but it is Boyi Shuqi in the flower.
Poems describing reunion after a long separation
1. that hearing first your surname, I thought you a stranger, then hearing your given name, I remembered your young face. ——? A brief but happy meeting with my brother-in-law "meeting by accident, only to part" by Tang Liyi
Interpretation: After ten years of separation, we suddenly meet in a different place when we grow up. I was surprised when I first asked your name, and I remembered my old face only when I said my name.
2. it is almost as hard for friends to meet, as for the morning and evening stars. Tonight then is a rare event, * * * This lamp is candlelight. -Tang Du Fu's "Giving Eight Guards to Chu Shi"
Interpretation: It is really rare for close friends in the world to meet each other, just like one after another. What day is it tonight that I am so lucky to be able to tell you the truth.