This sentence comes from Lin Daiyu's poem entitled "Apricot curtain in sight" written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty in the eighteenth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions. The original text of this poem is as follows:
Apricot curtains attract guests to drink, and you can see a villa. Lingbi Goose Water, Sang Yu Yanziliang.
A bed of spring leeks is green, and ten miles of rice flowers are fragrant. In prosperous times, you don't have to plow and weave.
Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Sapporo, a wine fluttering in the wind, attracts guests coming and going to drink here; Looking from a distance, there is a mountain villa, which reminds people of returning to agriculture.
Geese are playing in the pool full of water plants, and swallows are flying between mulberry trees and elms, busy building nests on the roof beams. Fifty acres of vegetable fields are green and dripping, and dozens of rice flowers are fragrant. There is no famine in peace and prosperity, so why bother farming and weaving?
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Creative background: Apricot Curtain in Sight was originally a villa building in the Grand View Garden, where Li Wan lived. Just after the Grand View Garden was built, Jia Zheng gave birth to the heart of retiring to the Grange when he was playing the title with Mubin. The building is modeled after the farm yard, with simulated small rice fields and free-range chickens, ducks and geese. Jia Baoyu wrote the title "Apricot Curtain in Sight", and later Lin Daiyu wrote it for Jia Baoyu when Yuan Fei asked everyone to write poems.
The first couplet "Apricot curtain attracts guests to drink, and there is a mountain villa in the eye" divides the topic into two sentences, which are natural in syntax and closely related to the topic. Write the following four sentences about the villa scenery seen by tourists.
The sentence in Zhuan Xu's poem "Sang Yu Water is a Goose, Water is a Swallow" depicts a vivid picture: geese swim in the dragon water full of pools, and swallows fly out of mulberry trees and build nests among the roof beams. This couplet only uses nouns to compose poems, not verbs or adjectives, which is a special syntax of Chinese classical poetry.
The necklace "a bed of spring leek green, ten miles of rice and flowers fragrant" highlights the field landscape of "apricot curtain in sight" and draws an imaginary harvest scene. At the end of the couplet, "There is no hunger in prosperous times, so why bother farming?" Write the feelings of visitors. Because it was written for Yuan Chun, it was very clever to end the poem with a hymn of saints.