It means that although the plum blossoms are beautiful, they do not compete with the peaches and plums. They just bring the news of spring.
From "Bu Suanzi·Yong Mei", it is a poem written by the modern thinker and writer Mao Zedong in 1961.
The beauty of Mao Zedong’s short poem praising plum blossoms is that it “reverses its meaning.” Such a "reverse" breaks out of loneliness, helplessness and inaction, and becomes "sending" spring (last year's spring), "welcoming" spring (this year's spring), "beautiful" spring, "reporting" spring, and "laughing" "spring. Plum blossoms have become the iconic presence that ends a season and a climate and begins a season and a climate. Saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new has a great effect.
The original text is as follows:
Wind and rain send spring home, and flying snow welcomes spring. There are already hundreds of feet of ice on the cliff, but there are still beautiful flowers and branches.
Qiao doesn’t fight for spring, she only repays it. When the mountain flowers were in full bloom, she smiled among the bushes.
The translation is as follows:
The wind and rain have sent away winter, and the flying snow in the sky has ushered in spring. The cliff is covered with hundreds of feet of sharp ice, but the plum blossoms are still blooming proudly and beautifully.
Although the plum blossoms are beautiful, they do not compete with the peaches and plums. They just bring the news of spring. When the mountains and fields were filled with flowers, she was smiling among the flowers.
Notes on words and sentences
1. Bu Suanzi: The name of the word brand. King Luo Bin’s poems use several names, and he is known as Bu Suanzi. The word "Gu" is "like holding someone's hand, selling fortune-telling", which means selling fortune-telling. Also known as "Bai Chi Lou", "Mei Feng Bi" and "Chu Tian Yao", it has forty-four characters in a double tone, with two oblique rhymes in the upper and lower parts.
2. Lu You's poems about plum blossoms: refers to Lu You's "Bu Suanzi·Yong Mei". Lu You has created more than one hundred poems about plum blossoms, and "Bu Suanzi·Yong Mei" is his most famous one. Lu You advocated the Northern Expedition at that time, but the emperor did not trust him, and the surrender faction in the court squeezed and attacked him. It was difficult for him to fulfill his ambition, and he was sad and desolate, so he wrote "Bu Suanzi·Yong Mei".
3. Wind and rain send spring back: From Xin Qiji's "Moyu'er", "It can also eliminate several wind and rain, and spring will return in a hurry."
4. Jue: still, still, still.
5. Qiao: Handsome, beautiful appearance.
6. Romantic: The colors are bright and beautiful.
Extended information:
This poem was written in 1961 and was first published in "Chairman Mao's Poems" published by People's Literature Publishing House in December 1963. In December 1961, Mao Zedong was planning the upcoming enlarged working conference of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Guangzhou. At that time, the international environment China faced was the European and American blockade and the Soviet Union's rebellion; the domestic environment it faced was economic difficulties and numerous disasters.
Facing difficulties and pressure, Mao Zedong wanted to express the attitude and fighting spirit of the Communists, so he planned to write a poem. He read Lu You's "Bu Suanzi: Yong Mei" and felt that the writing was good; but he was depressed and could only use its form, not its meaning, so he wanted to read another poem about plum blossoms that was different in style from Lu You's. The main purpose of this word is to encourage everyone to despise difficulties and dare to overcome them.
This poem by Mao Zedong borrowed the original tune and title of Lu You, but the artistic conception reflected in the whole poem is completely different. Therefore, the author said: "Reading Lu You's "Yong Mei" poem will contradict its meaning. And use it.
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