Xue Baochai is free to write poems, but she also sees her own voice in A Dream of Red Mansions, thinking that she should do it in a specific historical background and environment, and is confident that she can do it.
Ode to Bai Hai Tang is from A Dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. It is a seven-character poem written by the novel character Xue Baochai. The first couplet of this poem reveals "identity"; The antithesis of couplets is a metaphor for the ending of Xue Baochai. Neck couplets use rich images and novel syntax to describe the "white" and "clean" of begonia.
The couplet shows that Xue Baochai "plays the fool". This poem by Xue Baochai is a metaphor for flowers and describes her dignified and reserved manners as a rich and powerful woman. The words used in the whole poem are appropriate, implicit and vigorous.
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Bai Yong begonia
During the day, cherish Fang Zi and cover the door, and join hands with the urn to fill the moss basin.
Rouge washes away the shadow of the autumn platform, and ice and snow absorb the soul.
You know that flowers are brighter when you are pale, but how can you get jade without trace when you are worried?
If you want to pay for Bai Di, you should be clean. If you don't talk about Tingting, you will faint.
Annotation translation
Sentence annotation
Wèng: portable pottery used to hold water.
"Rouge" sentence: a rhetorical syntax of poetry, which means that there is a beautiful image next to the autumn steps where rouge is washed away, revealing the elves who attract ice and snow at the edge. Wash out, wash away the smeared things and show their true colors. An exposed step near the edge. Mei, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem "Drunk to watch the spring rain and wash rouge".
"Worry about the sky": How can flowers worry about the sky without a trace? As far as jade is concerned, "scar" is a scar, similar to people. "Scar" is a tear mark, and its sudden appearance refers to the timid gesture of flowers or Xiangzi with dew.
"Pay" sentence: Bai Di, the God of the West, is in charge of autumn affairs. Autumn is called plain autumn and clear autumn because it is crisp and there is no dirt in the sky. Therefore, it is up to the flowers to repay the kindness of Bai Di Yulu, which means that Haitang is white. Use, Cheng Gaoben wrote "Yi", which is not as good as the word "Yi" to convey a reserved spirit.
Tingting: Good Xiangzi.
Vernacular translation
Take care of fragrant flowers, close the courtyard door during the day, and personally sprinkle the mossy flowerpot with a pitcher.
On the autumn steps, there is an elegant figure washed away by pink, and the dew-covered steps attract the snow-like elves.
Only when it is bright can it show that the begonia flower is particularly bright. How can you keep the flowers from showing tears if you worry too much?
In order to repay the deification and education of autumn, it is entirely because of its purity that Tingting has reached dusk in silence.