Flowers don't merge with flowers.
Independent hedging is fun.
I'd rather hold incense and wait for death in the branches.
Have you ever been blown into the north wind?
Zheng Sixiao's Poem of Painting Chrysanthemums is different from other popular, elegant and unyielding poems praising chrysanthemums. It expresses the poet's life experience and ideal pursuit, and is a chrysanthemum poem with specific life connotation.
Zheng Sixiao, a student in imperial academy at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, once took an examination of erudition and macro-speech. Yuan army south, Zheng Sixiao care about the country and the people. He went directly to protest and criticize the enemy's plan, but he was rejected. Zheng Sixiao was saddened, living alone in Suzhou, and never married. After the death of the Song Dynasty, the word Weng was changed, and the name South was used to show that he did not forget his motherland. He also named his living room "Dongtian World", combined the characters by spelling, and put the "ten" of the word "Ben" in "Dongtian", meaning the word "Da Song". He was good at drawing orchids, but he didn't even draw soil when he painted orchids after the death of Song Dynasty. People asked him why, and he replied, "You don't know yet?" Zheng Sixiao's self-excited moral integrity makes people cry! He eulogized the chrysanthemum and gave his blood, tears and life!
"Flowers don't bloom in a hundred flowers, and independent hedging doesn't lack interest", which is people's understanding of chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemums don't bloom at the same time as flowers. She is a noble scholar when she doesn't follow the crowd.
The sentence "I'd rather hold the fragrance of the branches than die before being blown down by the north wind" further describes the chrysanthemum's arrogance and aloofness, and expresses its determination to stick to high morals and honor and to die before succumbing to the Yuan Dynasty. This is Zheng Sixiao's unique feeling and his unyielding loyalty to the motherland.
Poets in the Song Dynasty lamented the dead branches of chrysanthemums, which has become an incomprehensible complex, which is of course related to the hidden pain in the Southern Song Dynasty. Lu You has a poem of "holding the branches idle" in "Dead Chrysanthemum", and Zhu has a poem of "holding the fragrant branches old without dancing with yellow leaves in the autumn wind" in "Yellow Flowers". Judging from the aesthetic completion of images and clear political orientation, these two poems are slightly inferior to Zheng Sixiao.
"Holding incense to the branches to death" is more tragic and solemn than "Holding incense to the branches to die", with a dignified tone and never looking back. Compared with "never blowing in the north wind" and "autumn wind doesn't dance with yellow leaves", the former asks questions in a firm tone; The latter declared that the word "dance" had a little graceful artistic conception and was slightly out of the theme. More importantly, the former points out the "north wind", which clearly points to the Mongolian khanate originating in the north, and the feeling of resistance is vividly on the paper.
Of course, both Lu You's and Zhu's poems are good, but the three poems stand side by side, and their worries are deeper.
This poem is suitable for "national integrity, loyalty and patriotism".