What is the image expression of "Wu Tong" in ancient poetry?

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1, the pain of bereavement

Step 2 suffer from sadness

3. Lonely sadness

The pain of widowhood:

Platanus acerifolia is an ordinary tree species, and its leaves and branches are green. According to legend, the phoenix tree is dioecious, the phoenix tree is male and the phoenix tree is female, and they live and die together. Therefore, people in China usually use the phoenix tree to symbolize the eternal and loyal love between men and women.

The ancients believed that "heaven and man are one, and things and I are connected". When things and people see leaves falling, they will naturally think of the end of life. Therefore, the ancients often used the phoenix tree to die or the leaves fell to symbolize the fall of love.

The symbol of widowhood with phoenix tree can be traced back to Mei Cheng's "Seven Hairs": "The phoenix tree in Longmen is 100 feet high without branches, with rotifers in the middle and scattered roots. There are thousands of peaks on the top and a hundred-foot stream on the bottom. The stormy waves go upstream and die, and their roots are half dead. "

Suffer grief:

Farewell is an eternal theme in literary works. The ancients often used different images to express the desolation and sadness of parting. Platanus acerifolia is one of the most commonly used carriers.

The poet takes the phoenix tree as the image, in fact, he wants to express the obscure meaning of "I am the same". "The phoenix tree leaves in Jinjing are yellow, and the bead curtain does not roll frost at night. The smoked jade pillow has no color, and you can listen to the Nangong for a long time. "

Lonely sadness:

The phoenix tree is tall and straight, with deep roots and luxuriant leaves. He is a leader in the tree and has been valued since ancient times. The ancients often associated the phoenix with the phoenix. Phoenix is the king of birds, and it likes to inhabit the buttonwood tree best. Volume 1 of The Book of Songs records: "Feng Huangming is gone, he is in Gorkon. Wutongsheng, in the morning. " Indus can attract auspicious birds and phoenixes, which shows that it is a symbol of nobility.