Source: The famous sentence "Peacock flies to the southeast, falling in five miles" comes from the narrative poem "Peacock flies to the southeast", which was first written in Xu Ling's "New Ode to Yutai" and is based on real people and stories.
Excerpt from the original text: Peacock flies southeast and wanders for five miles. "At the age of thirteen, I can weave, and at the age of fourteen, I can learn to tailor. Fifteen plays and sixteen poems. Seventeen years old is the wife of a gentleman, and her heart is often bitter and sad. Since you are a government official, you are loyal to your chastity. My concubine has a spare room, and we often meet less and less.
Peacock flies southeast and stops every five miles. I was able to knit white silk at the age of thirteen and learned to cut clothes at the age of fourteen. At the age of fifteen, he learned to play cricket, and at the age of sixteen, he could read poetry.
I became your wife when I was seventeen, but I often felt pain and sadness in my heart. Now that I am an official, I will certainly stick to the official festival and concentrate on it. Leaving me alone in an empty room, the days when we meet tend to be more and more sparse.
The peacock flies southeast at the beginning of the article. Peacock's "Five Miles, One Wandering" and "Five Miles" Pavilion was a ceremonial place to welcome guests and see them off at that time, and it was the most obvious landmark at that time. The short pavilion in Wuli is the farewell of the ancient people in China, which also makes the word "Wuli" contain the meaning of being reluctant to part with you and being tearful.
Extended data:
The poem begins with "Peacocks flying southeast and drifting five miles", which arouses the sadness that loving couples are forced to separate and sets the emotional tone for the whole poem. ?
Peacocks come from the west, pass through the northwest, and China is in the southeast, so peacocks fly southeast. ? Gold is in the southeast, there is gold under the buttonwood, and the phoenix lives on the buttonwood, in the southeast. Wandering for five miles, I don't want to leave. ?
Peacock Flying Southeast is the earliest long narrative poem in the history of ancient literature in China and the best folk narrative poem in ancient China. It is the peak of the development of narrative poetry in Han Yuefu and an important symbol of the development of realistic poetry in the history of China literature.
Formerly known as "Ancient Poems for Jiao Zhongqing's Wife", 357 sentences, 1785 words. Shen Guiyu called it "the first long poem in ancient and modern times" and "Yuefu and Yuefu" with Mulan Ci.