"Apricot fat" is anthropomorphic. Generally speaking, being fat and thin describes people. Here, apricots are anthropomorphic. A pair of sentences, plum is to wheat flowers, golden is to snow, and apricot fat is to cauliflower.
Duality is a rhetorical way to express two corresponding or similar meanings with a pair of phrases or sentences with equal words, the same structure and symmetrical meaning.
The meaning of this sentence: a plum tree becomes golden, and the apricots grow bigger and bigger; Buckwheat flowers are white and rape flowers are sparse. After a long time, the farmers were busy working in the fields and didn't go home until noon. No one walked in front of the door. Only dragonflies and butterflies fly around the fence.
In the poem, plums are yellow, apricots are fat, wheat is white, and cauliflower is sparse, which describes the characteristics of rural scenery in the south in summer, with rich flowers and fruits and tangible colors. In the first two sentences, plums and apricots are fat, wheat and cabbage are thin and brightly colored.
This poem comes from:
Four Seasons of Pastoral Miscellaneous Glory (Ⅱ)
Author: Fan Chengda
(Song)
Plums are golden, apricots are fat,
The wheat is gray and the cauliflower is thin.
No one crossed the long fence,
Only dragonflies and butterflies can fly