"Only dragonflies and butterflies fly" is the fourth sentence of the ancient poem "Summer Pastoral Miscellaneous" by Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda. It is modified from Du Fu's poem: The butterfly flies deep through the flowers. See, dragonflies fly in the water.
Original poem: "Qujiang No. 2" (Du Fu)
I wear spring clothes every day when I return to the court, and I return home drunk every day at the head of the river.
Drinking debts are commonplace, but rare in the past seventy years.
You can see the butterfly deeply through the flowers, and the dragonflies fly in the water.
The scenery of the legend is constantly changing, and for the time being, mutual appreciation should not be violated.
"Only dragonflies, crickets and butterflies fly" comes from the fourth sentence of the ancient poem "Summer Pastoral Miscellaneous" by Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda. The full text is as follows:
Plums are golden and apricots are fat. , wheat flowers, snow and cabbage flowers are sparse.
No one passes by the fence during the long day, only dragonflies and butterflies fly.
Translation
The plum trees turned golden and the apricots grew bigger and bigger; the buckwheat flowers were all white, while the rapeseed flowers looked sparse. It's getting long, and the farmers are busy working in the fields and don't go home at noon. No one walks in front of the door; only dragonflies and butterflies fly around the fence.
Appreciation
The main idea of ??this poem is: the plums have turned golden yellow, and the apricots have also grown fat. The golden cauliflowers in the spring fields have now fallen away, leaving only sparse remaining flowers; at first glance, they are snow-white wheat flowers. At noon, the sun is high in the sky, the shadow of the fence becomes shorter and shorter as the sun rises, and no one passes by. It was quiet all around, except for dragonflies and butterflies flying by.
This poem describes the pastoral scenery of Jiangnan in early summer. The poem uses yellow plums, fat apricots, white wheat flowers, and sparse cauliflowers to describe the characteristics of the southern rural scenery in summer, including flowers and fruits, color and form. The first two sentences describe plum blossoms, yellow apricots and fat, wheat and cabbage sparse, bright colors. The third sentence of the poem describes the working situation of farmers from the side: Farming is busy in early summer, and farmers go out early and return late, so they rarely see pedestrians during the day. The last sentence uses "only dragonflies and butterflies fly" to set off the silence in the village. There is movement in the silence, which makes it seem even quieter. The last two sentences describe the long days and few people, with flies and butterflies dancing, using movement to contrast the stillness.