1, showing vigorous and tenacious vitality.
The vitality of grass is very tenacious, and it is not afraid of wind and rain, cold and heat, and it can grow everywhere. Therefore, grass has become the best representative of the poet's vitality. For example, Bai Juyi's Farewell to Ancient Grass: "The vast grass crosses the plain and comes and goes with the four seasons. Wildfire never completely devoured them, and they grew taller again in the spring breeze. " Ouyang Xiu's "Three Spring Tours in Fengle Pavilion": "The spring clouds are light and the sun is high, before the grass stirs the clothes." Spring grass flourishes and grows vigorously, touching the skirts of tourists, and the word "teasing" shows the thriving trend of spring grass.
2. Express the feelings of loving and cherishing spring.
Grass is one of the earliest messengers in spring. Poets often express their feelings of loving and cherishing spring with the first sprouting green spring grass. For example, Bai Juyi's "Qiantang Spring Tour": "Flowers are more and more colorful, and shallow grass can have no horseshoes." Han Yu's Early Spring appeared outside Zhang Eighteen Members of the Ministry of Water: "The rain in the sky is crisp, and the grass color in the distance is near." The grass color of "looking at the distance but not at all" is unique in early spring. It is tender and full of moisture, symbolizing the prosperity of the earth in spring.
3. Express homesickness and separation.
Since the Chu Ci Zhao Yin wrote that "the prince and grandson don't return, the spring grass grows and the warbler flies", the grass is often associated with homesickness in poetry. This is probably every spring, spring grass will bloom again, just like the return, and sentimental poets often associate the return of "grass" with the return of "people". Therefore, the poet uses endless and ubiquitous grass to symbolize the same endless and ubiquitous sadness. For example, Li Yu's "Qing Ping Le": "If you hate like spring grass, you can go further and live better." With endless spring grass, far away from the horizon, it is a metaphor for the sadness of parting. Fan Zhongyan's Su Curtain Cover "The mountain reflects the setting sun and the sky meets the water, and the grass is ruthless outside the setting sun." Li Shutong's Farewell is "Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is blue and the sky is blue".
4. set off the bleak scene and express the feelings of the country's rise and fall.
Weeds often give people a sense of desolation, so there are images of "weeds", "autumn grass" and "weeds" "Grass" has become the object used by poets to describe desolate scenes and express the rise and fall of the country and the ups and downs of things. Liu Yuxi's Wuyi Lane: "There are weeds beside Suzaku Bridge, and the sunset at the entrance of Wuyi Lane is oblique." Rosefinch Bridge is overgrown with weeds and wild flowers everywhere, and the prosperity of the past has disappeared, reflecting the vicissitudes of life. Bai Juyi's "Song of Eternal Sorrow" "The evening grass falls in the Xigong Nangong, and no one sweeps the red leaves on the steps."
5, performance frontier fortress and grassland scenery
The image of "white grass" often appears in ancient poetry. White grass is a kind of grass in the northwest, which is extremely tough, but it can be broken after frost. "Send Tian Wu to Bai Xuege": "The north wind rolls white grass, and eight In the snow crosses Tatar." "White Grass Stack" highlights the unique climate in the northwest frontier: the wind is crazy and the rain is cold, which shows the heroic spirit of the soldiers who are not afraid of hard life. Grass is the most common plant in grassland, which can best represent the scenery of grassland. For example, the northern folk song "Chile Song": "The sky is grey, the wild is vast, and the wind blows the grass and the cattle and sheep are low."
6. Materialization of the poet's subjective feelings
Grass grows in barren hills, struggling alone, unknown, and nobody cares. When frustrated poets see them, they often think of their own experiences, think that they are secluded grass, and personalize "grass" for their own situation. For example, Li Shangyin's Yi Xian: "God pity the grass, and the ground is sunny." Only by taking the quiet grass that grew in the dark and suffered from rain and waterlogging for a long time, and suddenly encountering the sunset, it can soak up the afterglow and increase business. The poet himself had a similar fate, so he naturally found himself in the grass, so he empathized with things and pinned his life consciousness on the grass. Wei's Xixi Chuzhou: "Pity the grass stream, and there are orioles singing in the trees." Poets want to retire, so they only pity the "secluded grass" to show the poet's mind when he is poor and sober, and he is not flattering.
7. The quiet environment and the performance of loving seclusion.
Vegetation is lush, mostly because the place where it grows is inaccessible and no one tramples on it. Therefore, poets often use "grass" to express the elegance of the environment and their love for seclusion. For example, Jia Dao's "Li Ning lives in seclusion": "Living in seclusion with few neighbors, the grass path into the wasteland." A path covered with weeds leads to a barren and hopeless small garden, and no one lives nearby. The elegant writing environment implies Li Ning's recluse status. Tao Yuanming's Return to the Garden: "When planting beans in Nanshan, the grass is full of beans and the seedlings are sparse." "The road is narrow and the grass is long, and the evening dew is stained with clothes." The poet doesn't hold a grudge against uprooting weeds in the countryside all day long, but enjoys it and shows the pride of seclusion.
8. Metaphor is insignificant in one's own position.
Grass is a small plant in nature, which is easy to eradicate and destroy. In ancient poetry, it is often used as a metaphor for smallness. For example, Du Fu's "A Night Abroad": "A small wind rippled on the grass bank, passed through the night, and blew to my motionless tall mast." Writing about the breeze blowing the fine grass on the river bank is not a vague description of the landscape, but a feeling in the landscape. At this time, Du Fu's good friend Yanwu passed away, and the poet fell into a desolate and helpless situation. By writing the scenery, he showed his situation and feelings: as small and humble as the grass on the river bank.
9. I am carefree
Weeds are overgrown, they have no intention of pruning, or they are bored to find grass in the wild, which shows that the poet's inner leisure is heavy! For example, Sima Guang: "Idle around", "An old friend has never been with you, and a sparrow stands outside the door, which is really worth it." I'm already lazy. Spring grass grows much more when it rains. "Sima Guang idled around at home, unhappy, and the servants were lazy when the master didn't pay attention to the housework, and the flowers and plants were not trimmed, which led to the overgrowth of weeds after a spring rain and drowned the beautiful spring scenery. The poet's aversion to weeds shows his aversion to this idle life. Wang Anshi's "Beishan": "It is too late to count the fallen flowers, because of sedentary. Explain "being late" with "looking for grass slowly" and write down your leisure.
10, the performance of human feelings.
Grass is often used to express sad feelings, probably because the withering of autumn grass and weeds easily touches people's sentimental feelings. For example, Xin Qiji's "Never Meet Le Jingkou Gu Beiting Nostalgia": "Grass trees in the sunset, ordinary lanes, humanity sent slaves to live." The protagonist has passed away, and the residence was desolate. The image of "grass" entrusted him with his deep regret and sorrow for the depression and neglect behind the hero and the lack of successors in the heroic cause. Wu Wenying's cordate telosma: "An old friend upstairs, who can give me some advice?" When the poet was in Suzhou ten years ago, he met a beautiful prostitute. Ten years later, he returned to Suzhou this time. Things have changed and he is very sad. Wei Zhuang's Taicheng: "In the Six Dynasties, it rained, the grass rained and the birds sang." The most heartless thing is the willow tree in Taicheng or the smoke cage in Shilidi. "The grass grows green in the south of the Yangtze River, which symbolizes the vicissitudes of the world with the stillness of the scenery and sets off people's suffering with the" ruthlessness "of things." "Grass" is the most common image in nostalgic poems that exaggerates the sentimental atmosphere.
Grass is heartless, but poets have feelings. In the poet's pen, grass is endowed with such rich feelings and implications, and there is a profound sense of life behind the image of "grass". This requires us to indulge in swimming and learn more about it.
Image is the link between external things and the poet's inner feelings, and it is also the key for us to grasp the theme of poetry. Therefore, when reading poetry, we should firmly grasp the image in poetry, feel it, appreciate it and explore its inner meaning, so as to crack and appreciate all the mysteries of poetry.