Borrow three reeds to surround the embankment;
The flowers on the other side are very fragrant.
-Cao Xueqin inscribed Jia Baoyu's "Qin Fangting" couplet.
Note ① Three poles: refers to the water depth. ② One pulse: refers to the shape of flow.
Appreciating China's garden architecture has always paid attention to the combination of scenery and emotion. There are pavilions and pavilions in the garden, with topics and beautiful scenery. Therefore, after the Grand View Garden was completed, A Dream of Red Mansions emphasized: "The vast scenery, some pavilions, without words and titles, is also boring. Wherever there are flowers and willows, they can never be colored." The landscape couplets in A Dream of Red Mansions are mostly concentrated in 17- 18. Before preparing this couplet, there was a scene in A Dream of Red MansionsNo. 17- 18: From a winding path to a cave, "I saw beautiful trees and green onions burning, and the area was clean and flowing, winding from the depths of flowers and trees under the stone gap." A few more steps, and gradually to the north, flat and wide, flying on both sides of the building, carved and embroidered thresholds, all hidden in the branches of the ravine. Overlooking it, the clear stream falls snow, the stone rises through the clouds, the white stone is a hedge, the ground is enclosed, the stone bridge is three, and the animals spit. There is a pavilion on the bridge. "Qin Fangting's couplets summarize the main part of this miracle.
The first part of the couplet reads, the waves are clear and clear, like borrowing the green of willow trees on the shore; The next link is the fragrance of water, like the water in this vein, sharing the flowers on the other side. This pair of couplets is written about "water", and the beauty is that there is no word "water", and all of them use "around the embankment" and "on the other side" to reflect the stream; The "three poles" and "one pulse" are used to contrast the "water depth" and "manifold", and the water color, water quality and surrounding atmosphere are integrated into one, forming a poetic picture of Liu Ying, with flowers blooming and flowers falling and flowing water red. No wonder many scholars who appreciate the scenery are full of praise. When reading here, readers can also enjoy the poems and paintings in the Qin Fang Pavilion.