Meaning: Flowers, plants and trees know that spring is about to return, and they all want to keep the pace of spring, and they are competing for beauty.
It comes from the poem "Two Poems of Late Spring - One" by Han Yu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
The whole poem is as follows:
One?
The grass and trees know that spring will soon return, and all kinds of red and purple compete with each other.
The poplars and elm pods have no talent and thoughts, but they can only solve the problem of snow flying all over the sky.
The translation is as follows:
Spring will return soon, and the flowers, plants and trees are trying their best to retain the spring. First, they are competing for beauty, and the world is filled with purple and red.
Poor Yanghuayuqian, there is no beauty, only flying all over the sky, like pieces of snowflakes.
Extended information:
This is a poem describing the scenery of late spring. At first glance, it seems that it is just a description of a common scene with hundreds of flowers competing for beauty. However, upon closer inspection, it is not difficult to find that the poem is ingenious and unique.
The poet does not write about the sparse flowers and withering in late spring, but the touching scene of the grass and trees remaining in spring and showing a variety of purples and reds: when the flowers, plants and trees detect the news that spring is about to return, they each use their best to express their beauty and contentment. Fragrant, colorful and blooming, even the poplar and elm pods, which were originally dull and less fragrant, turned into snowflakes and danced in the wind, joining the ranks of remaining spring.
The reason why this poem is novel and interesting lies in the wonderful use of personification in the poem, which blends people and flowers into one. "Grass and trees" are originally merciless things, but they can actually "know", "understand" and "fight", and they can also be distinguished by their "talent and thinking". The wonder of imagination is rare in poetry. The last two sentences are particularly chewy. Readers can make bold and unfettered imaginations based on their own life experiences, which will make people think endlessly and taste endlessly.
About the author
Han Yu (768-824), also known as Tuizhi, was a writer, philosopher and thinker in the Tang Dynasty. He was a native of Heyang (now Mengzhou City, Jiaozuo, Henan Province) and Han nationality. . His ancestral home is Changli, Hebei Province, and he is known as Han Changli in the world. In his later years, he served as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, also known as the Ministry of Official Affairs of Han. His posthumous title is "Wen", also known as Han Wen Gong. He and Liu Zongyuan were both advocates of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty. They advocated learning the prose language of the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, breaking parallelism into prose, and expanding the expressive function of classical Chinese.
Su Shi in the Song Dynasty called him "the founder of the Eight Dynasties of Literature", and the Ming Dynasty regarded him as the head of the eight great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties. "", the works are collected in "Mr. Changli's Collection". Han Yu was the founder of the concept of "Taoism" in China's ideology and a landmark figure who respected Confucianism and opposed Buddhism.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Two Songs in Late Spring