Using plum blossoms to express sympathy for distant friends is also another important image of plum blossoms in ancient poetry. The first plum blossom poem, "Gift to Fan Ye" written by Lu Kai in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, uses plum blossoms to convey friendship: "When the plum blossoms are broken, they are sent to the messengers, and they are sent to the people of Longtou." Jiangnan has nothing, just give me a spring branch. >Many poets in the Tang Dynasty have used this image to create poems about plum blossoms. Folding plum blossoms and sending them away has become a common allusion. In the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi and others inherited this image: "When will the messenger leave, I will send you a branch" ("Plum Blossom"). >("He Shicheng's thanks for sending three kinds of plum blossoms to Zhang Mingshu's plum blossom platform") Plum blossoms have become a token of friendship. The image of "Zhemei Sends Friends" to express friendship gradually deepens and develops. By the mid-Song Dynasty, plum blossoms were not only a token in poetry, but also represented an emotion. When poets saw plum blossoms, they couldn't help but think of their friends far away. (Su Shi's "Ci Yun Yang Gongji Offers Plum Blossoms")(Zhang Shunmin's "Seeing the Plum Blossoms on the Bank of Hunan" by Zhang Shunmin) There are also poets who express their love for their friends and lovers in their poems about plum blossoms, such as Zhu Song's "Drinking Plum Blossoms and Giving Gifts to Guests": "Being drunk in front of this flower is better than sending lovesickness Extremely sad. >And Zhu Xi's "Meeting Plum Blossoms on the Qingjiang Road": "When he was a thousand miles away, who would miss him?" >They all reveal the feeling of longing for lovesickness. There are even poets who express their homesickness by chanting plum blossoms: "I still pity the guest at the foot of Longshan Mountain, but my heart is broken before I break a branch." >(Lu You's "Guest House Facing the Plum Blossoms") "There is no need to send envoys from north to south to see the distance, and guests worry about paying short and long chants". (You Miao's "Plum Blossoms") The poet felt that the world was difficult and expressed the sadness of being homesick but unable to return. friendship. The last two sentences of "The Yellow Crane Tower Farewell to Meng Haoran at Guangling" use flowing water to write about friendship: "The shadow of the lone sail in the distance is gone in the blue sky, and only the Yangtze River can be seen flowing in the sky." The poet stood on the river bank, looking far into the distance, and what he saw was a broad, bright and beautiful picture. A picture of fluid change. The friend took a lone boat, waved goodbye, and drifted away, finally disappearing into the distance where the water and the sky meet. What remained in front of the poet's eyes was a clear blue sky, high and vast, and the river flowing eastward, endlessly. A vast and bright world, a poet who feels lost. Isn't the vast and endless water flowing eastward just like the poet's deep feelings of following his friends and being reluctant to leave? Gazing at the flowing water and being fascinated, standing there for a long time without seeing the heaven and earth, which shows the poet's deep feelings and longing for his friends. "To Wang Lun" is also about the farewell feelings between friends. Different from the previous poem about the poet farewelling his friends, this poem is about friends farewelling the poet. The last two sentences are written like this: "The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun's love for me." First, it exaggerates that the water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, beautiful and attractive; The common language is renovated and compared with "less than", which highlights that the friendship between friends is as deep as the ocean and the righteousness is as heavy as the mountain. The purity and depth of friendship are vividly expressed through a negative metaphor.
In Tang poetry, the image of the phoenix tree contains a rich meaning of friendship, which is mainly reflected in several aspects: first, the poet refers to the phoenix tree as a confidant, and also compares the confidant to the phoenix tree. The image of the phoenix tree contains the meaning of a confidant; It is used to express friendship and farewell; thirdly, "Sitong" is a tool used by poets in the Tang Dynasty to convey friendship.