"Only dragonflies and butterflies fly" does not come from Du Fu's poem, but from Fan Chengda's "Four Seasons of Pastoral Miscellaneous Prosperity II"
Four Seasons of Pastoral Miscellaneous Prosperity II
Dynasty: Song Dynasty
Author: Fan Chengda
Plums are golden and apricots are fat, wheat flowers are white and cauliflower is sparse.
No one has ever crossed the hedge, but dragonflies and butterflies fly.
Translation:
A plum tree turns golden, and the apricot grows bigger and bigger. Buckwheat flowers are white, while rape flowers are sparse. As the day grows, the shadow of the fence becomes shorter and shorter as the sun rises, and no one passes by; Only dragonflies and butterflies fly around the fence.
Appreciation:
This poem is about the rural scenery of Jiangnan in early summer. In the poem, plums are yellow, apricots are fat, wheat is white, and cauliflower is sparse, which describes the characteristics of rural scenery in the south in summer, with flowers and fruits, colored and tangible. In the first two sentences, plum, apricot and fat, wheat and cabbage are thin and bright in color. The third sentence of the poem describes the situation of farmers' labor from the side: in early summer, farmers are busy with farming, so they leave early and return late, so they rarely see pedestrians during the day. The last sentence uses "only dragonflies and butterflies fly" to set off the silence in the village, which makes it even quieter. In the last two sentences, the days are long and the people are sparse, and the dragonfly flies and the butterfly dances to make the movement quiet.
Author:
Fan Chengda (June 26, 1126-October 1, 1193), with a word of energy and a word of youth, was named this mountain layman in his early years and Shihu layman in his later years. Han nationality, born in Wuxian County, Pingjiang Prefecture (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). Famous officials, writers and poets in the Southern Song Dynasty.
in the 24th year of Shaoxing, Song Gaozong (1154), Fan Chengda became a scholar, and Yuan Wailang, a member of the official etiquette department, was also a storyteller in the government hall. Trunk road for three years (1167), knowing the state. In the sixth year (117), the main road sent an envoy to the state of Jin, not afraid of violence, and did not disgrace its mission. It also removed people from the Chinese books. Seven years (1171) of the main road, jing jiang Prefecture was known. In the second year of Chunxi (1175), he was appointed as the ambassador of Fuwenge and Sichuan. In the fifth year of Chunxi (1178), he was involved in politics for only two months and was disintegrated. In his later years, he retired to Shihu, where he became a university student. Shao Xi died in the fourth year (1193) at the age of sixty-eight. He was posthumously given the five senses, and later gave them to Shao Shi, Chong Guogong and posthumous title Wenmu, who was later called "Fan Wenmu".
Fan Chengda is famous for his poems. He started with the Jiangxi School, then studied the middle and late Tang poems, and inherited the realism spirit of poets such as Bai Juyi, Wang Jian and Zhang Ji, and finally became his own family. The style is simple, fresh and charming. Poetry has a wide range of themes, and the works that reflect the content of rural social life have the highest achievements. Together with Yang Wanli, Lu You and You Mao, they are called "Four Poets of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty. His works had a remarkable influence in the late Southern Song Dynasty, and even more in the early Qing Dynasty. There is a saying that "the sword at home is south and the stone lake is home". He is the author of Shihu Ji, Lan Lu, Wu Chuan Lu, Wu Jun Zhi, Gui Hai Yu Heng Zhi, etc.