Falling flowers represent a kind of sadness. Falling flowers are not only the emotion of regretting and cherishing spring, but also become the deep sadness of the passing of time and the loss of beauty. As one of the countless classic images in Chinese classical poetry, falling flowers have experienced a long process of development and evolution.
Various images in the creation of classical poetry reveal the infinitely meaningful aesthetic characteristics of Chinese poetry appreciation and become the materialized expression of the national aesthetic psychology. Flowers are a symbol of beautiful things, but "falling flowers" exactly represent a kind of sadness. Falling flowers are not only the emotion of regretting and cherishing spring, but also become the deep sadness of the passing of time and the loss of beauty.
The lamentation on the vicissitudes of life, the joys and sorrows, and the impermanence of the world, has achieved the ultimate concern for human beings, the subject of life. Grasping the important image of falling flowers has become a shortcut and key to understanding the theme of poetry creation in poetry appreciation.
Looking back on the long process of cultural accumulation, the image of falling flowers has the following two particularly prominent connotations. First, from flower blooming to flower falling, this evolution process of nature is the same as the vicissitudes of the human world, the prosperity and decline, and the career. The laws of ups and downs are consistent with each other, thus becoming a symbol of the rise and fall of life, full of philosophical meaning.
Secondly, the flowers are weak and bloom occasionally. Therefore, falling flowers often replace women. Nature is the eternal cognitive and aesthetic object of human beings. The forms of nature are rich and colorful, and human beings' pursuit of beauty is endless. Mountains, rivers and vegetation “all have temperament”. Falling flowers is a natural phenomenon and a natural law, but in the creation of classical Chinese poetry, this image is constantly given emotion and life.
Describe the falling flowers as a simple natural scenery, forming a beautiful artistic conception. "The falling flowers are blown away, and the weeping willows still grow after being broken." (Wang Han's "Midnight Spring Song") The garden is full of spring scenery. , the bright spring scenery expresses the joy of holding hands in spring outings. "There are several houses on the stream, and half of the fallen flowers have fallen on the east flowing water." (Wang Wei's "Han Shi Cheng Dong Ji Shi") The poet is in a leisurely mood. Seeing the falling flowers and flowing water, he does not feel sad because of it, but feels that the spring scenery is so strong.
I sigh in front of the falling flowers, sighing that time is fleeting and beauty is no longer beautiful. The flowers drift by themselves and the water flows by itself, a kind of lovesickness and two worries. "(Li Qingzhao's "One Cut of Plum Blossoms") expresses the poet's depression and the pain of lovesickness. The famous poem "Man Ting Fang" by Xu Junbao's wife "The long drive in, the singing stage and the pavilion, the wind blows and falls, the flowers are sad. "It expresses a kind of hatred of family and country. The barbarians drove in, like the wind blowing away flowers, and the great rivers and mountains were ravaged. How sad and desolate.
"Now people are laughing when they bury flowers. Damn, who does he know who he was buried in? "This is a sentence from Lin Daiyu's flower burial poem in "A Dream of Red Mansions", which implies that her fate is worse than falling flowers, expressing the deep and deep sorrow in her heart. Lin Daiyu's "Flower Burial Song" also has "Just watch the spring flowers gradually fall, and then It is the time when Hongyan dies of old age. "Once the spring is gone, the beauty grows old, and the flower falls and the person dies without knowing it." Read this shocking poem. It completely equates the fate of flowers with people. The day the flowers fall is the time when people die.
Falling flowers symbolize a high-spirited spirit. One of the famous poems "Poems of Falling Flowers in the Western Suburbs" and "Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai" written by Gong Zizhen of the Qing Dynasty is "The sun is setting in the daytime with the sorrow of separation, and I chant my whip and point to the end of the world in the east." Falling red is not a heartless thing, it turns into spring mud to protect flowers. "They all use the image of falling flowers to metaphor their inner perseverance. Although they are not used by the world, they are still full of pride.
As one of the countless classic images in Chinese classical poetry, "falling flowers" has experienced a long development and evolution. Process. Its multiple changes from original meaning, metaphorical meaning to extended meaning and symbolic meaning express the ambiguity of Chinese language and create the profound and fresh aesthetic conception of Chinese classical poetry.
The image of falling flowers. When it appears in classical poetry works, it does not just stay on the surface of meaning, but has a deeper meaning, that is, what Sikong Tu said in "Twenty-Four Poems" is "an image outside the image" and "a taste outside the purpose" ".
This kind of use of falling flowers to imply the disappearance of spring and convey the feelings of regretting and cherishing spring is an example of the suggestiveness and ambiguity of Chinese classical poetry language. It can be seen that imagery is the creator's key to the creation of works. The unity of objective objects and subjective emotions expressed through the use of artistic techniques such as association in the process of reading is the unity of objective objects and subjective emotions that readers feel through language and text when reading and accepting.