Looking at the Apricot Curtain is from A Dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. It is a five-character poem written by novel character Lin Daiyu on behalf of Jia Baoyu. The first couplet of this poem, the first sentence begins with "Apricot Curtain" and the next sentence begins with "In sight", cleverly contains the theme and depicts the prospect of the villa.
The original text is as follows:
Apricot curtains attract guests to drink, and you can see a villa.
Lingbi Goose Water, Sang Yu Yanziliang.
A bed of spring leeks is green, and ten miles of rice flowers are fragrant.
In prosperous times, you don't have to plow and weave.
The translation is as follows:
The yellow wine flag attracts guests to drink, and the villa is hidden from a distance.
Innocent geese play in the water spinach room, and flying swallows shuttle between mulberry trees and elms.
A leek grows green in the spring breeze, and a rice field is filled with the fragrance of pollen.
There is no hunger and cold in the era of enlightenment, so why bother to plow and weave all day!
Extended data:
Looking at the Apricot Curtain, written by Lin Daiyu on behalf of Jia Baoyu, comes from the eighteenth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions and is one of the eleven poems in the Grand View Garden.
Because this period is the heyday of the Jia family, the Jia family is singing and dancing. The Grand View Garden Fu describes the extravagant scenes in the Grand View Garden in an all-round way, heaps up rhetoric to praise virtue and whitewash peace, and reveals a strong feudal orthodoxy.
But it also shows the thoughts, feelings and personality characteristics of different characters to varying degrees. Lin Daiyu, a feudal rebel, expressed her inner world of hating darkness and despising vulgarity through this poem.
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