Painting a Chicken is a seven-character quatrain written by Tang Yin, a poet in Ming Dynasty. The poet wrote this poem after painting this expensive rooster. At that time, when the internal struggle of the ruling class was rampant, he expressed his will and described the cock with white hair and red crown in the painting with popular and fluent words.
This poem depicts the strength of the rooster and writes its nobility. Show the expression, temperament and nature of the chicken. It usually doesn't talk much, but everyone reacts when it speaks, thus expressing the poet's thoughts and ambitions. From this poem, we can also see that the poet's writing characteristics of "not avoiding oral English" are full of nursery rhymes.
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Painting a Chicken is an inscription poem, which depicts the beautiful and noble image of a rooster, praises the character of not singing easily, but singing moving, and also shows the poet's mental outlook and thoughts and feelings.
"You don't have to cut off the red crown on your head, but you will walk in the future in white." This is the action and way of writing a rooster. Wearing a natural red crown that does not need to be cut, the whole body is white, and I am coming face to face with great interest. The poet uses the contrast of description and color to outline a big cock with red crown and white feather, which is majestic and majestic.
The "red crown on the head" in the first sentence describes the red crown on the cock's head. In this first sentence, the poet pays more attention to the natural beauty of the rooster without modification, so the poet praises this beauty as "no need to cut" The phrase "all white" also describes the white feathers of the rooster from the whole body. Clear, from partial to comprehensive; Compared with the red crown on the cock's head, the large area of white (cock) has a strong color contrast, depicting the beautiful and noble image of the cock.
In this poem, the poet expresses his uninhibited feelings and expresses his great ambition to be a pioneer of the times with the help of the white rooster in the poem.