Last spring, in this door, the girl's face contrasted with the peach.
Wherever people go now, peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze.
Cui Hu, a native of Boling (now Dingxian County, Hebei Province) in the Tang Dynasty, was a scholar in Zhenyuan and an official in Lingnan. (China Net Literature Library, please keep www.zwwx.com for reprinting)
Cui Hu's seven-character quatrains are simple in literal meaning, straightforward and natural in language, clear and fluent. It has been told by later generations for hundreds of years, and "Peach Blossoms have Faces" is widely used as allusions and idioms. Speaking of this little poem, there is also a legendary skill, which is recorded in Chronicle of Tang Poetry and Poem of Skills. The Chronicle of Tang Poems contains this poem: "Not a first nurse, Qingming travels alone in the south of the city, and lives in the village to pick flowers and trees. After locking the door for a long time, a woman asked through the crack. Yes, I said,' looking for spring alone, I am thirsty for wine.' The woman opened the door and took the water to the jar. Lean on Mo Mo and lean on Ke, which means a lot. Cui resigned and delivered it to the door. If you are at a loss, you can enter. And never came back. When the next year is clear, I'll look for it again. The door is still the same. Just lock it. Because the title is "Last year today in this door", this poem is in its left leaf. "
The authenticity of this "skill" recorded in Chronicle of Tang Poetry and Skill Poetry is doubtful. Perhaps it is not impossible to have a poem first and then elaborate it into the above "skills". But whether this "skill" is true or not, two things seem to be certain. One is that this poem has a plot, and the other is that this "skill" helps to understand this poem.
In Cui Hu's poems, the whole story is about the past and the present, and only four sentences contain scenes in which two things are people, interdependent and interacting.
The feeling of past lives in the poem is caused by the memory of a beautiful girl who left at the first sight. From the past to the present, I wrote "Last Year" by tracing back to the source, which led to the first scene: the affair of seeking spring-"Today last year, peach blossoms set each other off." "Last year" and "this door" pointed out the time and place, which were very definite and unambiguous, showing deep recognition and accurate memory. At that time, "this door" was full of spring breeze and peach blossoms, and there stood a beautiful girl whose face and peach blossoms matched each other, which was really beautiful. Here, the poet does not directly describe the beauty of peach blossoms and women, but captures the most beautiful and moving scene in the whole process of "seeking beauty in spring", and only uses the word "set each other off in red" to vividly outline the beautiful scene of interaction, mutual contrast and competition between people. "Peach blossoms set each other off in red" not only set a beautiful background for "peach blossoms", but also set off a girl's radiant face. At the same time, it implicitly expresses the poet's infatuation and emotion, as well as the situation that both sides have nothing to say. Through this touching scene, readers' beautiful imagination of the events before and after is stimulated, leaving a broad imagination space for readers.