From: Tanghe Zhangzhi's Singing Willow
Original poem:
willow
Tang Dynasty: He Zhangzhi
Jasper dressed as a tree, hanging down ten thousand green silk tapestries.
I don't know who cut the thin leaves, but the spring breeze in February is like scissors.
Explanation:
Tall willows are covered with new green leaves, and drooping willows are fluttering gently like thousands of green ribbons.
Whose skillful hand cut off this thin young leaf? It turned out to be the warm spring breeze in February. It's like a pair of clever scissors.
Jasper: Bright green jade. Here is a metaphor for the bright green willow leaves in spring. A tree: full of trees. One: full, full. Tāo: a rope made of silk. This refers to a wicker ribbon. Cut: cut.
The first two sentences of this poem use two new metaphors of beauty to describe the vitality and prosperity of spring willow; The latter two sentences compare the spring breeze to "scissors" more ingeniously, and show the invisible "spring breeze" vividly, which is not only novel in concept, but also full of charm.
Extended data
The first sentence is about a tree, personifying it. Reading, people can feel that the willow tree is like a graceful beauty who has been dressed up. The word "jasper" here should have two meanings: first, the name "jasper" is related to the color of willow trees, and the words "jasper" and "green" in the next sentence are complementary to each other. Second, the word Jasper will always leave a young impression in people's hearts.
The structure of this poem is to write the overall impression of willow first, then willow, and finally willow leaves, from total to sub. Sing the spring breeze with willow, compare the spring breeze to scissors, say that she is the creator of beauty, and praise her for cutting out the spring. This poem is full of people's joy in early spring.
As an important poet in the early Tang Dynasty, He's poems played a certain guiding role in the healthy development of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and also had a demonstration significance for the creation practice of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which had a great impact on the prosperity of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and made outstanding contributions to the development and prosperity of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
He's poems are famous for quatrains. In addition to offering sacrifices to the gods and writing poems, his lyrical style of scenery writing is unique, leisurely, light and tasteful. The greatest success of his poems lies in reflecting and expressing the most essential things in social life, that is, human feelings and humanity, and writing a kind of emotion that human beings have with a specific direction.