"The spring city is full of flowers, and the cold food is easterly and willows are oblique." The poet has a lofty foothold, a broad vision and a panoramic view of the whole city. The word "spring city" is highly concise and gorgeous. "Spring" is a natural season and climate, and cities are cities on earth. The combination of the two presents an infinitely beautiful scenery. "Flowers flying everywhere" is a typical picture captured by the poet. Spring is full of flavor, covering the whole city.
The poet didn't say "flowers are flying everywhere", because this is just a general generalization, but "flowers are flying everywhere". This kind of double negation greatly strengthens the tone of affirmative sentences, effectively setting off the grand occasion that the whole city has been immersed in Fuchun.
The poet didn't say "flowers are everywhere", but "flowers are flying everywhere", which not only helps to express the vitality of spring with the strong dynamic character of "flying", but also shows how accurate the poet is in describing time series. "Flying flowers" refers to falling flowers dancing with the wind. This is a typical late spring scenery. To say "flying flowers" instead of "falling flowers" is to write flowers clearly and write the wind secretly.
original text
"Cold Food" The spring city is full of flowers, and the cold food is slanting. As night fell, the palace was busy lighting candles, and smoke drifted to the house of the prince and the marquis.
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In Chang 'an in late spring, catkins are flying all over the sky, and the east wind blows the willow branches in the imperial garden at the Cold Food Festival. As night falls, the palace is busy distributing candles, and the light smoke from lighting candles is scattered into the homes of princes and nobles.
Extended data:
There are two main artistic achievements of poetry: first, it is dense in thought and rigorous in structure. There are only four sentences in the poem, but there are many twists and turns. From the content point of view, from writing scenery to chanting customs; From the perspective of space, from the imperial city to the imperial garden, from the palace to the powerful family; In terms of time, from day to dusk; Emotionally, from peace to solemnity. Wait, wait.
These multiple twists and turns make this poem full of ups and downs in a short space, which is intriguing. Notes on Tang Poetry commented on this: "The first sentence is cold food, and the second sentence is quoted by the word' Yuliuxie', so the candles in the lower Han Palace are not prominent." Second, the words are delicate and accurate.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Cold Food (Poems by Han Yi in Tang Dynasty)