Cold food is a seven-character quatrain written by Han Yi, a poet in Tang Dynasty. The first two sentences describe the scenery during the day, describing the charming spring scenery and the scenery of catkins flying and falling red in the palace garden in Chang' an city; The last two sentences are about the night scene. Although fire is forbidden in the Cold Food Festival, favored officials can get candles specially given by the emperor, and light smoke fills the air at home.
The poem is full of intoxication of the imperial city's spring scenery and praise of prosperity and tranquility, and at the same time it implies euphemistic irony. The whole poem is mainly about scenery description, realistic line drawing, rigorous structure, multiple turns, implicit brushwork and profound meaning.
In Chang 'an in spring, there is no place where flowers are falling and dancing. Cold food festival, east wind oblique palace wicker. The Cold Food Festival should have banned fire, but at dusk, the palace gave candles to light a fire, and the light smoke of candles was scattered in the home of Minister Venus.
Cold food is a traditional festival in ancient China. In this festival, the ancients did not make a fire for three days before and after, but only ate ready-made cold food, hence the name. According to Xijing Miscellanies, in the Han Dynasty, although fire was banned in the whole country during the Cold Food Festival, the emperor gave the nobles of Houmen candles and licensed lighting to show their favor. Tang system, following the old practice, also spread candles on cold food to show gratitude.
Appreciation of cold food literature;
This poem vividly depicts the vigorous spring scenery of the imperial city and the elegance and wealth of the royal family during the Cold Food Festival, which is not only a true representation of holiday customs, but also a concrete portrayal of singing in the prosperous times. Such poems are certainly to the taste of feudal emperors. No wonder it was directly appreciated by the emperor.
There are three main artistic achievements of this poem: first, it is dense in thought and rigorous in structure. There are only four sentences in the whole poem, but there are many turning points. 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.