The verses recalling the good past are as follows:
1. Last year, today, in this door, the faces of the people and the peach blossoms reflected each other's red. ——Cui Hu's "Ti Capital Nanzhuang".
Appreciation: On this day last year, it was at the door of this house in Nanzhuang, Chang'an, that your beautiful face, girl, complemented the blooming peach blossoms, making it look particularly crimson. Seeking Spring and Encountering Beauty - "On this day last year, in this door, people's faces and peach blossoms reflected each other's beauty." The poet captured the most beautiful and moving scene in the whole process of "Looking for Spring and Encountering Beauty".
"The peach blossoms on the human face reflect each other's red" not only sets a beautiful background for the peach blossom-like "human face", bringing out the girl's radiant face, but also implicitly expresses the poet's gaze and emotion. The situation of shaking one's mind and seizing each other, and the scene of both parties expressing affection and not communicating with each other.
2. Once upon a time, everything was difficult to overcome, except Wushan. ——Yuan Zhen's "Five Poems on Lisi".
Appreciation: "Once upon a time, the sea was difficult to make water, but except for Wushan, it was not clouds." The sea was extremely deep and wide, thus dwarfing the water elsewhere. There is Chaoyun Peak in Wushan, overlooking the Yangtze River, with steaming clouds and brilliant clouds. According to Song Yu's "Preface to the Ode of the High Tang Dynasty", the clouds are transformed by goddesses. They belong to the sky above and fall into the abyss. They are as lush as pine trees and as beautiful as a charming concubine. Therefore, the clouds elsewhere pale in comparison.
The poet used the metaphor. Literally, it means that after experiencing the "Canghai" and "Wushan", it is difficult to appreciate the water and clouds elsewhere. In fact, it is used as a metaphor for the relationship between their husband and wife. The emotions in the world are like the water of the sea and the clouds of Wushan. Its depth, breadth and beauty are unparalleled in the world. Therefore, except for my beloved wife, there is no other woman who can make me emotional.
3. After the floating clouds parted, the flowing water lasted for ten years. ——Wei Yingwu's "Happy Meeting with an Old Friend in Liangchuan on the Huai River / Happy Meeting with an Old Friend in Liangzhou on the Huai River".
Appreciation: After parting, things drift like floating clouds, and the years pass by like running water. The poet wrote this past event as if he was trying to get comfort from the sweet memories, but the result was the sadness of wasted years. Ten years of wandering make people old. This aging image is not only sad but can be expressed in words, and the feeling of wandering is also left unsaid.
The vicissitudes of the world and the thousands of customs, I don’t know where to start. The poet only expressed it by naming it "floating clouds" and "flowing water" before "one farewell" and "ten years". The artistic conception is ethereal, and it is really "sparse and carefree". "Floating clouds" and "flowing water" allude to the poetic farewell of Su Wu and Li Ling's rivers in the Han Dynasty.