"Good birds choose wood to live in", phoenix tree can attract talents and talents, which is a symbol of nobility.
For example, "Feng Huangming is gone, and he is in a high position. Wutong was born in Chaoyang (The Book of Songs Daya Juana). " In ancient times, there was a saying that "planting tung attracts phoenix".
2. Loyal love
In ancient times, it was said that the phoenix tree was a male tree, and the phoenix tree was a female tree. The phoenix tree was born and died, and the branches were tall and straight, and the roots were deep, which became a symbol of loyal love in the poet's works.
"Peacock Flying Southeast" uses this symbolic meaning. "The two were buried together, next to Huashan. Pine and cypress are planted in the east and west, and phoenix trees are planted in the left and right. Branches cover each other and leaves communicate with each other. There are two birds in it, calling themselves Yuanyang. "
3. Feeling of loneliness, sadness and parting
The wind blows the leaves, and the rain is like a phoenix tree, which is a sad scene. The phoenix tree has become a lonely and sad image in the works of literati. Such as "lonely west wing, bright moon like a hook." Lonely phoenix tree locks the clear autumn in the deep courtyard (Li Yu's "Hui Huan"), which vividly writes the loneliness of the king who died in the lonely deep courtyard.
Wu Tong has the most image and significance of leaving love and not hating. For example, in Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow, "Peach and plum blossom, the spring breeze blows, the autumn rain falls, and the willow blossoms bloom", the poet compares the past grand occasion with the present desolation, and depicts the desolate scene after Tang Gaozong lost Yang Guifei because of the Anshi Rebellion. Zhou Zizhi's "When the sky is a little red": "The leaves of the plane have been raining for three nights, and the leaves are leaving."
"In the Hidden Road" Jia Sidao "The guest has not returned for a long time, and the phoenix leaves are autumn."