Broadly speaking, in fact, I think the song "Exposing Peony Flowers" in the West Chamber is beautiful and beautifully written, but this song "Winning Gourd" is too specific, and it describes the details of Zhang Sheng's playing with Cui Yingying's body and sexual organs too delicately, but it loses its aesthetic feeling. So it's not my favorite. I don't think this is the most beautiful poem I have ever read.
My favorite is Cui Hu's "Title of the South of the City", which has only four sentences:
Today last year, this door
Peach blossoms with low faces set each other off in red.
Keep your face down and don't know where to go.
● Peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze.
Simple, no esoteric words, no difficulties, a poem that can be read by primary school students, but the picture outlined in this poem is so beautiful and the emotions revealed are so melancholy.
The first sentence of the poem tells the time and place, which brings our thoughts back to a year ago today. Also in this door, there is a girl standing on the edge of a peach tree, and her beautiful face looks particularly rosy and beautiful against the peach blossom.
In the eyes of China people, flowers are the most beautiful things in the world, so people in China often use the names of flowers and plants when naming girls, and people in China often use flowers as metaphors when describing the beauty of women. For example, Su Shi has a poem that many people are familiar with: "A mandarin duck stays in the quilt for two nights, and a pear tree presses a begonia." Su Shi uses beautiful begonia flowers as a metaphor for a beautiful bride of 0/8 years old.
As for peach blossom, it can not only describe the beauty of women, but also mean "bride" to some extent, such as "Peach Blossom" in The Book of Songs: "Peach Blossom is dead, and its son should go home, so it is generally considered as a poem to congratulate a beautiful young woman on her marriage.
Cui Hu, a poet, must have read the Book of Songs and know what "peach blossom" means. He wrote "human face" and "peach blossom" together in "titled South Village", which at least showed his love for women at first sight. In today's buzzwords, when the poet Cui Hu saw the girl under the peach tree, he had been with this girl all his life in his mind.
However, due to various subjective and objective reasons, the poet did not confess or propose. The following year, the poet revisited his old haunt. You can't tell whether the poet wants to travel to see the scenery or see the girl again. In a word, the poet came out and went to the place where he had been last year. But in this place, things have changed, the city gate is still there, the peach blossoms are still there, but there is no face.
The four short poems vividly express the changes and invariance of the world.
When reading this poem, I seem to see a beautiful girl standing under a peach tree. I also saw a poet staring at the girl in the distance, which is somewhat similar to Bian's Broken Chapters. You stand on the bridge and watch the scenery. The scenery is upstairs. The bright moon decorates your window, and you decorate the poet's dream. But such a beautiful scene only exists in memory. When the poet comes back, the beautiful scenery is far away, but the beautiful peach blossoms are still in full bloom.
What a beautiful melancholy poem.