Meaning: The lotus-picking girl’s skirt is as green as a lotus leaf, and the lotus flowers emerging from the water are blooming towards the lotus-picking girl’s face.
The lotus noodles in green skirts were mixed in the lotus pond and it was difficult to distinguish them. Only when I heard the singing did I realize that someone was coming to pick lotus flowers in the pond.
From: "Two Lotus Plucking Songs" by Tang Wang Changling
Original poem:
Two Lotus Plucking Songs
Tang Dynasty: Wang Changling
The lotus leaf skirt is cut in one color, with hibiscus slit to both sides of the face.
You can't see anyone entering the pool, but you can only feel someone coming when you hear the song.
Luo skirt: a skirt made of soft and porous silk fabric. One-color tailoring: It seems to be cut from the same color of clothing. Hibiscus: refers to lotus.
Extended information
This poem uses freehand brushwork to express the overall impression of the lotus-picking girl. The poet places the lotus-picking girl among the lotus bushes. The integration of the girl and nature gives the whole poem a unique and beautiful artistic conception that attracts people's imagination.
This poem was written when Wang Changling was demoted to Longbiao. It was written in the summer of the seventh year of Tianbao by Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (748). There are records that Wang Changling has been serving as the Longbiao captain for some time. Once, Wang Changling was playing alone outside Longbiao City. In the lotus pond of Dongxi, he saw the local chief's princess, the barbarian A'duo, picking lotuses and singing in the lotus pond. , was deeply attracted by Qi, and composed "Lotus Picking Song".
Wang Changling has 181 poems in existence. The genres are mainly Five Ancients and Qijue, and the main themes are parting, frontier fortress, and palace resentment. In terms of quantity, institutional preparation, and wide range of themes, Wang Changling's poems are not as good as those of Li Bai, Du Fu, Gao Shi, and Cen Can, but the quality of his poems is very high. The frontier fortress poems can be combined with Gao Shi and Cen Shen. After the four outstanding figures, there are almost no frontier fortress poems in the poetry world.
Wang Changling’s poems about concubines and mourners use a spirit of compassion to describe the sorrow and lamentation of those concubines and mourners who have been locked up in the palace for a long time. They use delicate brushwork to show their lives and emotional world in many aspects, revealing their cruel fate. The tragic fate encountered under the palace funeral system objectively criticizes the evil of feudal society that destroys women.
This ideological tendency established the healthy tone of his works, washed away the filthy pornography of the court poems of the Six Dynasties, and effectively reversed the bad style of Qi Liang's songs. On the other hand, in terms of artistic expression, Wang Changling also carried forward the gorgeous and meticulous expression techniques of the Six Dynasties and inherited its formal beauty.
Wang Changling's Five Ancients are basically written in a solemn and awe-inspiring manner, with high ancient vigor and character.
During his lifetime, he was famous in the poetry world of the prosperous Tang Dynasty for this kind of poetry style