Meaning: It is a metaphor for the beauty of a girl. It is also used to describe the situation when a man and a woman fall in love by chance and then separate, and the man reminisces about the past.
Pinyin: rén miàn táo huā
From: Cui Hu's "Inscription on Nanzhuang of the Capital City"
Full text: In this door last year, the peach blossoms on the human face complemented each other. I don’t know where the human face is, but the peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze
Interpretation: Last year during the Qingming Festival, I was alone in Nanzhuang, a suburb of Chang’an. When I came to a farmhouse with peach blossoms in full bloom, a beautiful girl came out to warmly receive me. They left an unforgettable impression on each other. When the Qingming Festival came again the next year, the courtyard door was closed and the girl was nowhere to be found. Only the peach blossoms were still blooming in the spring breeze.
Extended information:
Peach Blossom Allusion: In the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar who went to the capital to take the exam. Once he went to the suburbs in the south of the city and saw a very nice cabin, so he made excuses. Go inside and take a look. Unexpectedly, he fell in love with a beautiful girl in the room at first glance.
The next year during the Tomb-Sweeping Day, he returned to that house, but saw that the door was locked, and he no longer knew where he had moved, so he wrote a poem: "On this day last year In the door, the peach blossoms reflected each other's faces, but where did the peach blossoms go? "Then he went back. ?
A few days later, he returned to that place unwilling to give up. Not only was the door not locked this time, but he also saw the girl’s father. The girl’s father sadly told him: “My daughter died because of I got lovesick after reading the poem he wrote, and I didn't expect that I died because of it." After hearing this, he was very sad and couldn't help but hug the girl and cry. Unexpectedly, the girl woke up at this time, and it turned out that she had just fainted. Soon after, the girl, who was gradually recovering, married the scholar. Later generations used the "peach blossom on human face" in the poem to describe the beauty of a girl.
Reference: Human Face Peach Blossom - Baidu Encyclopedia