Cao Xueqin
Series: Ancient poems about plum blossoms.
Chant the word "red" as red plum
Peach is not fragrant, apricot is not red, and cold has laughed at the east wind.
The soul flies to Yuling, the spring scenery is difficult to distinguish, and Luo Fu's dream is unclear.
The green calyx adds makeup to the torch, and the fairy helps the drunken cross the rainbow.
It looks like an ordinary color, and the shade comes from his ice and snow.
To annotate ...
1. Fang Fei-fragrant flowers and plants.
2. The sentence of "rushing to the cold" means "I like [Hongmei] first, and smile when rushing to the east wind. 」
3. The sentence "Soul flies" means that if the red plum moves to Yuling, its scenery will be difficult to distinguish spring scenery. For plum blossoms in Dayuling, please refer to the second note of Yapailing. Use "Yuling" to point out plum blossoms, and "Spring" to point out outstanding reds.
4. The sentence of "Xiage"-When Cho Se Ung visited Luofu Mountain in Sui Dynasty, a beautiful woman dreamed that plum blossom had become a story of "light makeup and plain clothes". See "Dragon City". Use "Xia" to describe extra points. The reason why we use the words "separate" and "unconnected" is because the plum blossom in Luofu Mountain in Cho Se Ung's dream is light in color, which is different from the plum blossom sung.
5. The word "green calyx" means that red plum is like a calyx green fairy with red candle and red makeup, and like a drunken white fairy, crossing the red rainbow. Green calyx, plum blossom green is called green sepal plum. Here, plum is used to personify, saying "calyx green", that is, fairy sepals are green as flowers, so it is called "makeup", similar to the following sentence. Supplement to Flowers and Plums, immortal with green calyx, quoted from Shihu Plum Tree: "Plum blossoms are pure green, and good people are greener than fairy sepals." Makeup refers to red makeup, red clothes, rouge and so on. Baoju means red candle. Fan Chengda's poem "Mei" in the Song Dynasty: "Wake up at noon, lead powder disappears, and wax melts when making up." Yan Xian, this means plum blossom. See note 1 and note 4 of Ode to Bai Hai Tang. Help the drunk. Drunk people need help. Point out extra points with a "drunk" face. Residual rainbow, the rainbow is most obvious in red, and it can still be seen after deformation. In the Southern Dynasties, Jiang Yan wrote Ode to the Red Rainbow: "Silent fire extinguishes the mountain red, and the residual shape is visible, but the residual color has not gone." It also means bonuses.
6. The sentence "as if" has two meanings: first, the color is beautiful and unusual; Second, plum blossoms are generally lighter in color, so "yes" is used to exclude them in order to say "red plum".