How to Understand "Taking Poetry as an Interesting Metaphor"

"Take poetry as a mirror and draw inferences from others" is a creative technique in The Book of Songs, which was later widely used in China's ancient poems. This technique expresses the theme or emotion of poetry by choosing a symbolic image, namely "Xing", and at the same time, it makes the language of poetry more vivid and vivid by using rhetorical devices such as metaphor and metaphor.

Specifically, "leaning on poetry" refers to expressing themes or emotions by choosing images with specific symbolic meanings in poetry creation. For example, in the Book of Songs, "Guan Luo's dove is in Hezhou. My fair lady, a gentleman is good. " Here, the theme of men's and women's love is compared by describing the scene of birds echoing on the sandbar in the river.

"Bixing" refers to making the language of poetry more vivid and vivid through metaphor, metaphor and other rhetorical devices. For example, "Li Sao" "Make lotus flowers as clothes, and pick hibiscus flowers as clothes." Here, the noble character of the poet is compared through the comparison of lotus, hibiscus and clothes.

In a word, it is a symbolic and figurative poetic creation technique, which is not only widely used in ancient poetry, but also has a far-reaching impact on later literary creation.