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Problem Description:
Who can tell! ! ! ! ! What does the catkins in Yong Xue mean?
Analysis:
Appreciation of Snow Poetry
Qin Jing, No. 3 Middle School, Xinji City, Hebei Province
Rain, snow, wind and frost in nature Among all kinds of scenery, snow is the most poetic and picturesque, so it is very popular among literati. The descriptions and passionate praises of the snow and flowers by poets in the past dynasties are even more dizzying and refreshing.
1. The last chapter of "Xiaoya, Picking Wei" in "The Book of Songs": In the past I left, and the willows clung to them, but now I come to think about them, the rain and snow are falling. When it starts snowing, snowdrops fall first. Sometimes snowfall is accompanied by rainfall, so there is a saying of "rain and snow are falling".
2. A couplet of poems from the Jin Dynasty to express thanks to Taifu Hanxue. He gathered his children to talk about the righteousness of the emperor. It was snowing heavily. The duke said: "What does the heavy snow look like?" The brother said: "Sprinkle salt and make a difference in the air." ", the brother and daughter said: "It's not like catkins blowing due to the wind", it can be regarded as a couplet of poems chanting snow with the same rhyme and meaning.
Use "salt in the air" and "catkins blown by the wind" to compare "heavy snow", each with its own merits. Some people think that "sprinkling salt in the sky" is a good metaphor. The color and falling state of snow are closer to that of salt, while catkins are gray-white and tend to rise in the wind, and even fly higher and farther, which is different from the way snow dances. When writing things, we must first obtain physical resemblance and then reach spiritual resemblance. Appropriateness is the foundation.
Some people think that "catkins blowing in the wind" is a good metaphor. It gives people the feeling that spring is coming and has profound meaning. What the metaphor "spreading salt" lacks is precisely meaning. Good poetry must have imagery, and imagery is the unity of object image and connotation. The metaphor of "catkins" is good because of its imagery.
3. Liang Wujun in the Southern Dynasties wrote a five-character poem "Song of Snow", which is close to rhythmic style and has been a famous poem that has been passed down through the ages: "The breeze shakes the trees in the garden, and the fine snow falls under the curtains. It lingers in the sky like mist. , The steps are like flowers. There are no willows in spring, only the white osmanthus branches are seen. There are no tears and there is no sense of love. "The first six sentences of the whole poem describe the scenery, and the last two sentences are very charming, whether they are describing the dynamics of the snow. The beauty is "like fog turning", or the static beauty of snow is "like flowers accumulating", both can describe the scene that is difficult to describe as it is now.
4. (1) "Travel to the North Wind" by Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty: The snowflakes in Yanshan Mountain are as big as mats, and they blow down Xuanyuan Terrace.
[Appreciation] The snowflakes in Yanshan area are as big as mats, and they fall on Xuanyuan Terrace one by one. This is Li Bai's famous sentence describing snowflakes. Yanshan is located in the southeast of today's Ji County, Hebei Province, which generally refers to northern my country. The Xuanyuan Terrace site is located on Qiaoshan Mountain in Huailai County, Hebei Province today. The sentence says "the snow is as big as a mat", which is a high degree of artistic exaggeration, but it does not lose its truth. As Lu Xun said in the article "Long Talk about "Cartoons"": "'The snowflakes in Yanshan are as big as mats' are an exaggeration, but there are snowflakes in Yanshan, and there is a bit of honesty in them, so that we immediately know that Yanshan is so cold. If It would be a joke to say that the snowflakes in Guangzhou are as big as mats.
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