Flowers are not flowers. Original appreciation:
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.
The original translation of China:
Say it's a flower, not a flower, say it's fog, not fog.
Come at midnight and leave at dawn.
It seems like a short and beautiful spring dream when you come?
Gone like a morning cloud, nowhere to be found.
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1 flowers are not flowers: flowers are not flowers and become the epigraph of this poem. The first four sentences are all three words and consist of the first two sentences of the seven-character quatrain. The last two sentences are still seven words, with obvious traces, indicating that they evolved from seven-character quatrains. The first sentence is titled "Flowers are not flowers".
Come on, come on.
How long: short and beautiful.
4 gone: gone, like a cloud floating in the morning, nowhere to be found.
5 Chao zhāo Cloud: This is the allusion of King Xiang of Chu to the dream of Wushan Goddess. Preface to Song Yu's "Gao Tang Mi": My concubine is in the sun of Wushan, blocked by high hills, under the balcony at sunrise, dusk rain, dusk sun.
Appreciation of the original text of 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. Using "fog" as "martial arts" and "martial women" are female stars. Because of the official nature, I should go to the women's hostel, but it's 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 formal wives. They are interdependent with bureaucrats, but their relationship is inconvenient and 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, but not too 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.
Semantic pun and hazy beauty are the biggest characteristics of this little yes. Fog, dream of spring, clouds, these images are hazy and ethereal, deliberately omitting the connection between them, showing a huge leap, and the words are ethereal and refined, which is memorable and shows the poet's extraordinary artistic skill.