1. Silkworms in spring will weave until they die, and candles will drain the wick every night.
The word "silk" in "Spring silkworms must weave until they die" is homophonic with "thinking". You miss each other like silkworms until you die. "And the candle will cry the wick every night" is a metaphor for the endless pain of not being together, as if the candle burned to ashes and the wax tears ran out.
2. "Decline": I am well aware of Song Yu's bitterness, romance and elegance. He is also my teacher.
The second one is a poem praising Song Yu, a famous lyricist in Chu. The poem was written by the author after a personal field trip, so it is profound, incisive and thought-provoking. In the poem, the vegetation falls, the scenery is depressed, the mountains and rivers are full of rain, the old houses are deserted, and the boat people give directions, all of which are the feelings expressed by the poet.
3. Falling red is not heartless, but turning into spring mud can protect flowers better.
Gong Zizhen used to be cabinet secretary, director of Zongrenyuan and director of etiquette department. He advocated abolishing graft and resisting foreign aggression, and once fully supported Lin Zexu to ban opium. He resigned at the age of 48 and returned to the south. The following year, he died in Yunyang College, Danyang, Jiangsu. His poems advocated "changing the law" and "changing the painting", exposed the corruption of the Qing rulers, and were full of patriotic enthusiasm. They were praised by Liu Yazi as "the first class in three hundred years".
Your father is full of peaches and plums, so why plant a variety of flowers in front of the hall?
The Green Field Hall is open, occupying the essence of everything. Passers-by said it was your father's home. Your father's students are all over the world. Why plant flowers in front of the house? This poem uses metonymic rhetoric, taking peaches and plums as students, and the Green Field Hall refers to the house name of Pei Du in Tang Dynasty. This poem takes up the essence of everything by writing that Pei Du's house doesn't grow flowers (the house is conspicuous). It expresses praise for a teacher who is famous all over the world.
5. The teacher lives in Gao Tai Temple, Jiting, with the pavilion leaning against the clouds.
According to Feng Zhi's Three Records of Yunxian, Zhang Ji, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, was obsessed with Du Fu's famous sentences and burned them one by one. Mix burnt paper ash with honey and eat three spoonfuls in the morning. One day, Zhang Ji's friend came to see him and saw Zhang Ji mixing paper dust. He asked inexplicably, "Zhang Ji, why did you burn Du Fu's poems and mix them with honey?" Zhang Ji said: "After eating Du Fu's poems, I can write poems as good as Du Fu!" My friend laughed it off.