It's also autumn scenery. One wrote the night when the moon was white and the frost was clear, and the other wrote the day when the sky was high and the clouds were light and the Wan Li autumn geese were shaped. The former is desolate and cold, and the latter is soaring. "Yanyan has no intention, and the west bank of Taihu Lake goes with the clouds." (Jiang Kui pink lips) Winter has arrived, and the wild geese in the north are flying leisurely along the west bank of Taihu Lake along the flowing clouds. Clouds are unintentional, geese are natural, just like the natural temperament of the wandering poet Ren Zhen.
Second, the poet's yearning for his relatives in his hometown.
Because geese are migratory birds, they travel from north to south in autumn. "They say, the geese fly south and come back here this month" (on the wall of an inn in the north of Dayu Mountain in Song Wenzhi). It is said that they stopped at Yan Hui Peak in Hengyang, Hunan Province, and flew back to the north the following spring. This kind of regular free flight is enviable for those who have no home or are homeless because of the war on business or study.
Interestingly, when poets are homesick, they mostly write about geese flying south in autumn, and rarely write about geese flying north in spring, just like lively and lovely swallows in spring; Moreover, the voice of writing about geese is relatively empty, and the shape of writing about geese is relatively unreal.
Third, "wild goose" has another meaning, that is, messenger.
The so-called "Hongyan delivers books", similar to bluebirds and carp, can deliver books of love, affection and friendship. With regard to the origin of wild goose's feet, it is said that during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, Su Wu herded sheep in the Xiongnu Beihai for 19 years. The messenger of the Han Dynasty told the Huns that Emperor Wu of the Great Han Dynasty hunted a wild goose in Shanglinyuan, and there was a letter written by Su Wu on its foot. Khan was forced to release Su Wu to Han.
Letters may not really exist, but according to scientific investigation, geese fly tens of thousands of miles every year and hundreds of miles a day, so it is entirely possible to fly back to the Han Dynasty from Xiongnu. Related to it is the story of "Qiu Yan".
It is said that Yuan Haowen once said that every goose catcher killed one of the two geese, and the other one escaped and circled over the dead goose, then hit the ground and died of double suicide. After Yuan Haowen heard about it, he bought the body of a goose and built a tomb by the river, named it "Qiu Yan", and gave the fairy "fishing?" Ask the world.
4. Wild geese are also witnesses of nature and human beings, similar to the role of swallows in the old days.
"Today, I don't only smell the water, but I only smell the geese flying in the autumn." Once upon a time, there was a golden stage in Bai Yutang. Today, there are only pine trees, and the mulberry fields are blue. Only the wild goose, who once watched the autumn moon and the spring breeze, is the witness of personnel changes and the eternal representative of nature, but in the face of all this, it seems indifferent and so heartless.
Fifth, the metaphor of brotherhood.
When geese fly in order, they can reduce resistance and encourage each other at any time to ensure the long-distance flight of geese. This situation is called "háng".
"Uncle in the field, was yellow. Two clothes and two geese on the raft. " ("Poetry? Zheng Feng? Uncle Duan (Uncle Yutian)' s younger brother went hunting in a four-horse cart, with two horses in the middle and two horses flying on both sides like wild geese. The geese are orderly and help each other, much like the relationship between brothers. Book of Rites? " Wang Zhi: "Father's teeth go with him, brother's teeth fly like geese, and friends are not superior. "
"Flying in a wild goose, parallel and fast." Later, because of the metaphor of brothers.