Ye Li, born around 730 AD, was originally from Wucheng (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang). His father is a senior intellectual, and he is very good at poetry. He taught Ye Li to recite poems since he was a child, hoping to train his daughter to be a literary master beyond himself. Ye Li is very talented. She showed great talent for poetry when she was young. At the age of six, she was able to write poems that surprised her father, although she was a little unknown.
The thing is, when Ye Li was 6 years old, she was chatting with her father in the yard. In order to check her daughter's study progress, her father asked her to make poems about roses in the yard. Unexpectedly, Ye Li didn't even think about it. In an instant, all kinds of ideas welled up in her mind. As soon as she opened her mouth, she said, "As soon as time passes, my mood will be chaotic." Her original intention is that the rose has grown up and should have been put on the shelf, but the shelf has not been put on the shelf, and the branches of the rose are intertwined, just like people's mood, making a mess.
It stands to reason that Ye Li's metaphor is just right, but his father heard another meaning. He thinks that the homonym of "shelving" is "marriage", which seems to mean that parents are not in a hurry about their daughter's marriage, but they are worried about their daughter. You know, Ye Li is just a girl at this time. Consider getting married now and take it when they grow up. Therefore, my father suddenly flew into a rage. He said that Ye Li would definitely become a "slippery girl", so when Ye Li was eleven years old, he sent her to Yuzhen Temple and became a female Taoist.
As the saying goes, "look at eighty at the age of three." It's true. Although Ye Li became a Taoist, her temperament has not changed at all. She sings poetry, draws pictures and plays the piano every day, and her life is very carefree. In addition, she also got to know famous people at that time, such as Lu Yu (Cha Sheng), Jiao Ran (Monk) and others, especially Jiao Ran, with whom Ye found herself indissolubly attached. However, Shi Jiaoran is a monk, and she is a Taoist. In order to avoid suspicion, she had to hide her feelings in the poem, so she had the poem "August solstice"
From near to far, Qingxi from deep to shallow. As high as tomorrow, the closest relatives are husband and wife.
This poem is a bit interesting. "Things" is a locative word, which can be near or far, and it is more appropriate to describe the relationship between two people. "Flow" means shallow, while "clear" can reflect the whole sky, which is quite mustard seed. Although "the sun and the moon" are both in the sky and look very close, they rarely appear at the same time. As the saying goes, "gather less and leave more." "Husband and wife" are more grounded, and the relationship between them is even more unspeakable. Intimate relationships and strange bedmates are also common.
Because of this, this song "August solstice" has spread to this day and has become an eternal quatrain. What do you think of this poem?