Newcomer: the bride. Old man: abandoned wife. Palm lotus: It shows the extreme of caress. Eye in the eye: extreme words are disgusting. The general idea of these two sentences is: when the husband marries the bride, he abandons the old and welcomes the new, and regards the bride as a lotus flower in his hand, which is very caressing; Treating the abandoned old woman like a thorn in the side is extremely disgusting.
In feudal society, women were only accessories of men. Once a man has a new lover, the old woman is thrown away like a shoe. The heroine's husband is a "general in title of generals in ancient times", who was promoted because of his meritorious service in "breaking Lu last year", but the emperor gave her "two million gold", which brought her great disaster. Her husband's "Luoyang is as popular as a flower" not only abandoned her, but also forced her to separate from her two biological children. She said bitterly, "My mother and son were separated by your husband and wife", which is not only a profound exposure to bureaucrats who like the new but also a powerful accusation against the unreasonable feudal marriage system.
Bie Zi Ma is a famous work by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Bie Zi Ma is one of the 50 poems of New Yuefu. This poem is about what the general said when he abandoned his wife and forced her mother and son to leave: where will you go, mother and son, even a bird in the forest; The mothers of those birds lost their children, and their husbands accompanied their wives and lived a kind, loving and comfortable life in their later years. Sad, tearful, vivid metaphor and unique artistic conception.