Appreciation of several common images in ancient poetry

Month: homesick, pregnant

Cicada: The ancients often used the nobility of cicadas to show their noble character. Yu Shinan's Cicada said, "It's not the autumn wind that makes you aloof." Cicada is used as a metaphor for noble character.

Grass: strong vitality

Life and growth in nature

hope

Bleak and desolate

Distant

Spring damage

Sadness of parting

A humble status, position 。

Vegetation: compare the desolation and prosperity of vegetation to express ups and downs. For example, "after ten miles of spring breeze, wheat is green." (Jiang Kui's "Yangzhou Slow"), a very prosperous Yangzhou Road, full of green wheat, is desolate.

Nanpu, Lu 'an and Changting are synonymous with farewell places.

Cao Fang: In China's classical poetry, it is a metaphor separated from hate. Yuefu's Chorus? During the trip to Yinma Great Wall Cave, "Grass by the Qingqing River in Philip Burkart Road" began with "Grass by the Qingqing River" to express the thoughts of Iraqis in the distance.

Banana: It is often associated with loneliness and sadness, especially parting. It's sad enough that the rain hits the banana, and it's even more sad that the dream soul chases the rain and hits the banana leaves.

Willow: Fold the willow to say goodbye. Since the Han Dynasty, folding willows has often been used to express farewell feelings, which has aroused the yearning for distant relatives and the homesickness of travelers. The poem "Farewell" wrote: the willows hang green on the ground, and the flowers fly in the air. Willow flowers fly, pedestrians return?

Indus: In Chinese classical poetry, similar to banana, most of them express a bitter sound. Li Qingzhao's "Slow Sound" says: "The phoenix tree is raining, and at dusk, it is dripping." It can be seen that the autumn rain hitting the phoenix tree has a sad taste.

Pine and cypress: people often use the cold tolerance of pine and cypress to symbolize loneliness, straightness, firmness and vitality. Liu Yuxi: "Later, wealth faded, and cold pines and cypresses still existed."

Sang Yu: It refers to the place where the afterglow shines at sunset, and later it is compared to the year of old age. For example, Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Tengting said, "Dongyu is lost, and Mulberry is not too late." .