of Nanbin Shoule's map and book means that Bai Letian, the prefect of Nanbin (the secretariat of Zhongzhou), asked the workers to paint and (personally) wrote this preface
The preface to the map of litchi Bai Juyi
The original text
Litchi is born in eight gorges, and the tree is like a curtain. Leaves are like laurel and holly; Hua Ruju, Chunrong; Real as Dan, ripe in summer. Flowers like grapes, seeds like loquat, shells like red ribbon, membranes like purple ribbon, flesh like Bai Rubing snow, and serosity as sweet and sour as buttermilk. Just like that, in fact, if you leave this branch, it will change color for one day, fragrance for two days, taste for three days and color for four or five days. Leaves are like laurel leaves, which are blue in winter; Flowers are like orange flowers, which bloom in spring; The fruit is as red as cinnabar and ripens in summer; Many fruits gather together like grapes; The nucleus is like loquat; The shell is like red silk; The film is like purple satin; The flesh is crystal clear and white as ice and snow; Slurry is sweet and sour like sweet wine and sour vinegar. Generally speaking, its actual situation is more than it. If the fruit leaves the branch, the color changes one day, the aroma changes two days, the taste changes three days, and after four or five days, the color and aroma are all gone.
In the summer of the fifteenth year of Yuan Dynasty, Bai Letian, the prefect of Nanbin (the secretariat of Zhongzhou), asked the workers to paint and wrote this preface himself. That's for those who don't know litchi and its appearance and taste, but don't know the changes after picking it for one day, two days and three days.
Specific meaning
1. Baxia: Bazhou and Xiazhou in the Tang Dynasty, in the eastern part of Sichuan Province and the western part of Hubei Province today. Here, the author only says "Litchi is born in Baxia", but in fact, there are places where litchi is produced in China, such as Hangzhou, Fujian. The part around it is called "curtain", and the part covered on it is called "cover". 3. Holly is green in winter. 4. Hua is connected with "flowers". 5. Chunrong is blooming in spring. zēng is blooming. 6. Flowers are: refers to the gathering of many fruits, commonly known as "Dulu". 7. Thin. 9. Sweet wine. 1. Cheese: sour vinegar. 11. If: If: 12. Workers: artisans working in the government, here refers to painters. 13. Dan: scarlet 14. Go: disappear. 15. Gui: small evergreen tree with oval leaves similar to litchi leaves. 16. Tuan Tuan:. I've seen
Short essay summary
This is an expository article, which is less than 13 words. It not only describes the origin, shape and taste of litchi, but also describes the changes in the short term after picking it. In the poem "Crossing Tsinghua Palace", the poet Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty wrote: "Chang 'an looks back and embroiders in piles, and thousands of doors on the top of the mountain open for the first time. No one knew it was litchi. "Writing background" Introduction to Litchi Picture "is a preface written by Bai Juyi for the painter's litchi picture. According to" Biography of Yang Guifei in the New Tang Dynasty ","My concubine loves litchi, and she is bound to give birth to it, so she turned around and sent it, and walked thousands of miles, but her taste has not changed, and she has reached the capital. "But at that time, it was difficult for ordinary northerners to see the beauty of litchi. And personally prefaces it.
Genre
Description object: Litchi Description order: logical order (from whole to part) Description method: comparison and analogy
Bai Juyi (772-846), Han nationality, whose word is Lotte, was also named Xiangshan Jushi in his later years, was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty in China. He was a famous and far-reaching Tang Dynasty in the history of China literature. The language is simple and popular, and it is known as "Poet Magic" and "Poet King". The official is a bachelor of Hanlin and a doctor Zuo Zanshan. Bai's Changqing Collection has been handed down from generation to generation, with representative poems such as Song of Eternal Sorrow, Selling Charcoal Weng and Pipa. The memorial hall of Bai Juyi's former residence is located in the suburb of Luoyang. Baiyuan (Bai Juyi's Tomb) is located in the Pipa in the south of Luoyang.