Author: Yuxi, Liu Tang
The peony in front of the courtyard is enchanting and gorgeous but lacking in bones, and the lotus in the pool is elegant, clean and boring.
Only the peony is the real beauty, which attracted countless people to appreciate at the flowering stage and alarmed the whole Chang 'an City.
Translation:
The peony in front of the courtyard is enchanting and gorgeous but lacks bone feeling, and the lotus in the pool is elegant and clean but lacks emotion.
Only peonies are the real beauty of heaven. In the flowering season, it attracted countless people to enjoy and alarmed the whole Chang 'an.
Appreciate:
This poem is a tribute to peony, and its praise method is to restrain him and praise him. The poet does not describe the beauty of peony from the front, but writes peony from the side. At the beginning of the poem, comment on peony and lotus first. Peony and lotus are very popular flowers. The poet, on the other hand, praised the peony with "peony without demon" and "pure and affectionate lotus" to set off its high standard and beautiful charm.
"Peony" was originally a kind of flower with ornamental value, but according to legend, after Wu Zetian in Tang Dynasty, "Peony bloomed at the beginning and declined" (Preface to Wang Yufu Peony Poetry). Some people even compare the peony to the "flower king" and the peony to the "near waiter". Here, with subjective feelings, Liu Yuxi described peony as enchanting but not high in style.
"Lotus" is a flower that often appears lofty and clean in poetry, but Liu Yuxi probably said that she is pure and heartless because she is graceful in the pool and can only watch from a distance but not play near. This implies that peony has four characteristics: demon, purity, personality and affection, which can be described as the most beautiful flower.
Second, the clouds need clothes, flowers and tolerance.
Author: Tang Libai
Beautiful people who see the bright clouds, think of their clothes and see flowers come to see them.
If Yushan didn't see her, it would be Yaochi meeting under the moon.
Translation:
Clouds are her clothes and flowers are her beauty; The spring breeze blows the railings, and the dew is moist and colorful. You can't see the mountain on Yushan Mountain, but see you under Yaotai Moon!
Appreciate:
This poem is ingenious in imagination, handy and unpretentious. The language in the poem is rich and colorful. If you read this poem, you will feel that the spring breeze is full of paper, the flowers are full of eyes and the face is blurred. There is no need to describe it. Naturally, people think that this is a peony, and the jade color is beautiful, nothing else. In art, this poem mainly uses a variety of rhetorical devices.
First, use figurative rhetoric. For example, the phrase "clouds need clothes to look good" describes the beauty of Yang Guifei's face and clothes through figurative rhetoric, showing her wealth.
Secondly, personification and exaggeration are used. For example, the phrase "Spring breeze blows open the threshold, showing the wealth of China" describes Yang Guifei's beautiful appearance and noble status through personification and exaggeration.
Third, buy flowers and peonies
Author: Tang Bai Juyi
The imperial city withered in spring, and it was noisy.
* * * If you say peony, you will buy flowers with you.
The price is uncertain, and the number of flowers is rewarded directly.
Burn a hundred red flowers and press five bundles of vegetarian food.
Hang a curtain on it and weave a fence next to it.
Sprinkle water and seal it with mud, and the color will not change.
Everyone is used to it, and everyone is confused.
There is an Weng who comes to buy flowers occasionally.
Bow your head and sigh alone. This sigh is nobody's business.
A bunch of dark flowers, ten people bless.
Translation:
At the end of spring this year, Chang 'an City was full of traffic and excitement. It turned out that it was the time when the peony was in full bloom, and the famous families in Chang' an went to buy flowers one after another. The price of peony flowers varies, and the price depends on the variety of flowers.
Some peonies here are lush and bright red, and a small bouquet of flowers costs five bundles of white silk. They are carefully cared for, their owners put curtains on them, built fences, and cultivated the most fertile soil after hard watering, so the colors of the flowers are as bright as before.
Everyone is used to it, and no one feels wrong. An old farmer happened to come to the place where he bought flowers. Seeing this scene, I can't help but bow my head and sigh, but who cares about this sigh: the price of this dark peony flower is equivalent to the annual tax of ten middle-class families.
Appreciate:
Li Zhao, a contemporary of Bai Juyi, said in Tang Shi Supplement: "The capital is expensive and has been a peony for more than 30 years. It's a pity that you don't spend time playing in the Spring Festival Gala every year. Holding a golden palace outside the palace, planting it for profit, a book is worth tens of thousands. "
This poem reveals some essential aspects of social contradictions through the description of "buying peony flowers in Beijing" and shows a theme with profound social significance. The genius of the poet is that he found an "Tian She Weng" that others turned a blind eye to from the place where he bought flowers, which triggered his inspiration and completed his original artistic conception.
Fourth, red peony
Author: Tang
The green leaves of red peony are quietly unfolding, and the color of red peony is bright and deep.
In the face of withering, peony is sad from it. Can you understand peony's thoughts?
Translation:
The green leaves of red peony are spreading quietly, and the color of red peony is rare and deep. In the face of withering, peony hurts. Do you know what peony thinks?
Appreciate:
This poem compares beauty to flowers, with beautiful artistic conception and intriguing. In the use of words and sentences, it is even more painstaking. With "green" as a foil to "red", peony looks charming and moving. The author doesn't know whether he is worried that spring is easy to wither, that his beauty is easy to decline, or that it is really a novelty to let flowers feel sorry for themselves.
The whole poem describes peony flowers with blood, flesh and emotion, and achieves deification and visualization in artistic conception. It is a good poem describing the object.
Five, think of Nanshan villa to enjoy peony.
Author: Yuxi, Liu Tang
How can you meet such beautiful flowers as peony in the world, which bloom layer by layer, and layer by layer, like Zengcheng, the western king Mu?
With such a good color, the sky should make you open your heart and let a hundred flowers blossom!
How can you meet such beautiful flowers as peony in the world, like Zengcheng, the mother of the western king, with double petals and overlapping layers? Such a beautiful color, God should let you open it later and compete with the flowers!
Appreciate:
The four-line poem "Watching Peony in Silly South Village" uses allusions to describe the beauty of peony flowers. Poets of the whole poem call it wonderful to write in white. The first two sentences of this poem describe the encounter between the poet and peony, and the last two sentences are admiration for the beautiful color of peony.
"I met this world by chance, and I was at my aunt's house in Zengcheng." The first sentence points out that the first time I accidentally saw peony flowers in Niu Senru's Southern Book, it was like meeting a "noble person" in life, inadvertently revealing the lofty realm of peony flowers in the poet's heart. In the poet's view, peony is the crystallization of the essence of the sun and the moon and should be planted in the sky. I met someone by accident today, so when I saw peony in Niuzhai, I was surprised.
In the third sentence, I was surprised when I first saw the peony, but I turned to sincerely praise the beauty of this flower. Beautiful peonies are called "beautiful cities" by poets. The word "beautiful city" is not too much.
Finally, the poet reevaluated the essence of flowers with the phrase "Heaven teaches late and flowers contend". The emphasis is on the words "late" and "match". Peony comes late and blooms in late spring. Du Liniang, the heroine in Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion, sang in compromise in "A Dream in the Garden": "Although the peony is good, how can you get it in the spring!" It is both a sigh and a compliment. Peony is pretty and does not strive for spring, and tianjiao is late, which is the best of all.