Appreciation of the ancient poem Flowers Are Not Flowers?

This poem is all argot, and the theme is to chant official prostitutes. At that time, there were a certain number of prostitutes at all levels of government, driven by corrupt bureaucrats. The first sentence "flowers are not flowers" means that official prostitutes are like flowers, but they are not real flowers. The word "fog" in the second sentence "fog is not fog" is a pun. Use "fog" as "force"

A "martial girl" is a female star. Because the official prostitute is a woman, she should go to the guest house, but it is not in a fog. "Come at midnight and leave at dawn" is not only a singer, but also a singer. It means pun, but it's mainly about people.

Official prostitutes are different from ordinary prostitutes and even more different from formal wives. They are interdependent with bureaucrats, but they are very close. They can only come at night and leave tomorrow, which can be said to be short and long. So how long have the last two sentences sounded like spring dreams? Leave like a sigh in the clouds. The last sentence will be short, and the next sentence will not be long.

Among them, the description of "dream" and "cloud" is based on the allusions about the dream meeting between the king of Chu and the goddess of Wushan in Song Yu's Gao and Goddess Fu. Because of the clever use of language and writing, the love between men and women is implicit and poetic.

Interpretation of Ancient Chinese Poetry (Bai Juyi's Version in Tang Dynasty);

Say it's flowers, not flowers, say it's fog? Not fog. It came in the middle of the night and left at dawn.

When did a short and beautiful spring dream come? When they leave, they are like clouds in the morning.

Like flowers, like fog. Come at midnight and leave at dawn. How much time will it be like a beautiful spring dream when you come? I'm gone, like a cloud in the morning, with nowhere to see.

Precautions:

1. Flowers are not flowers: the inscription "Flowers are not flowers" begins with this poem.

2. come, for example.

3. How long: Time is running out.

4. drifting away: after drifting away, it is like a cloud floating in the morning, and there is nowhere to find it.

5. Chao (zhāo) cloud: This is an allusion to the dream of the Wushan Goddess of Chu Xiang Wang.