Cold food is a seven-character quatrain written by the poet Han Yi.
In late spring, Chang 'an city is full of songs and dances, and countless flowers fall. The east wind of the Cold Food Festival blows on the willow trees in the royal garden. As night fell, the palace was busy lighting candles, and smoke drifted to the house of the prince and the marquis.
Chang 'an in spring is full of flowers and catkins. During the Cold Food Festival, the willow trees in the imperial palace garden are swayed by the spring breeze. When the sun sets, the people have no lights, but the powerful and deep houses have gone away with the smoke from the candles.
The first two sentences of this poem describe the scenery during the day, the charming spring scenery and the scenery in the palace garden in Liu Xufei, Chang 'an. The last two sentences describe the night scene, vividly drawing a candle picture at night, which makes people see the light of the candle and smell the faint smoke. The whole poem is realistic by line drawing, depicting the royal style, full of intoxication of the spring scenery of the imperial capital and singing of Chengping in the prosperous times. From the emperor at that time to the ordinary courtiers, they all preferred the poem and always spoke highly of it.
Appreciate:
Cold food in late spring, pleasant scenery, the first two sentences in the poem first write scenery. "The spring city is full of flowers, and the cold food is easterly and the willows are oblique." The poet has a lofty foothold, a broad vision and a panoramic view of the whole city. The word "spring city" is highly concise and gorgeous. "Spring" is a natural season and climate, and cities are cities on earth. The combination of the two presents an infinitely beautiful scenery. "Flowers flying everywhere" is a typical picture captured by the poet. Spring is full of flavor, covering the whole city.
The poet didn't say "flowers are flying everywhere", because this is just a general generalization, but "flowers are flying everywhere". This kind of double negation greatly strengthens the tone of affirmative sentences, effectively setting off the grand occasion that the whole city has been immersed in Fuchun. Instead of saying "flowers bloom everywhere", the poet said "flowers fly everywhere", which not only helps to express the vitality of spring with a strong dynamic character, but also shows how accurate the poet describes the time series.
"Flying flowers" refers to falling flowers dancing with the wind. This is a typical late spring scenery. To say "flying flowers" instead of "falling flowers" is to write flowers clearly and write the wind secretly. A word "fly" has far-reaching implications. From this, we can fully appreciate the poet's kung fu of refining ci. It is no exaggeration to say that the reason why this poem can be spread through the ages is mainly because of the epigram of "Spring City is full of flowers", and the most striking word in this poem is "fly". "Cold food, east wind and willow slanting", spring breeze blows all over the city, and naturally it also blows into the imperial garden.