I. Author
Zheng Banqiao (1693- 1765), whose real name is Zheng Xie, has a soft word,No. Lian, No. Banqiao, also known as Mr Banqiao, is a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, and his ancestral home is Suzhou. Kangxi scholar, a juren in the tenth year of Yongzheng, a scholar in the first year of Qianlong (1736). He served as an official in Fan County and Wei County, Shandong Province, with remarkable achievements. Later, he lived in Yangzhou and made a living by selling paintings. He is an important representative of "Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics".
Zheng Banqiao only painted orchids, bamboos and stones in his life, which is known as "orchids that never fade in four seasons, bamboos that never fall for a hundred days, and invincible stones that never change". His poems, paintings and calligraphy, known as the "three wonders" in the world, are more representative literati painters in the Qing Dynasty. [1] The representative works include Bamboo New Apparatus Drawing, Guang Qing Drawing, Zhu Lan Drawing, Gangu Juquan Drawing, Cong Lan Thorn Drawing, Zheng Banqiao Ji and so on.
Second, the original text
Zheng Qing Banqiao's Zhu Lan Poems
The four seasons of flowers and plants are the most endless, fragrant in time and space. There are only orchids and bamboos in the mountains, which have experienced spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Third, appreciate
This is a poem about bamboo and orchids. The main idea is that there are many flowers and plants, but most of them will gradually lose their fragrance after the blooming season, unlike orchids and bamboos, which have gone through spring, summer, autumn and winter, they are still slim, straight and intact.
By contrast and the withering of many fragrant flowers, the "constancy" of bamboo is highlighted. Through the description of Youzhu's fear of spring remnant, it embodies the poet's eulogy of "not changing the chanting, not changing the high morals and bright festivals".