Grey walnut
Just now, I clearly saw a white thing set off by the girl's embroidered tea. Why did you put it on a white porcelain dish, but I couldn't see anything?
This thing is like an old monk reading it through his wrist, coming from crystal beads.
Translation:
Just now, I clearly saw the girl embroidered with red sleeves to set off a dazzling white thing. Why can't you see anything on a white porcelain plate?
This thing is like a crystal bead that the old monk retired from his wrist after reading the scriptures.
White walnut, an ordinary fruit, is so beautiful in the pen of poet Li Bai. The first two sentences of this poem are very unusual: "You can see clearly in the tea, but not in the white jade plate." Here, the poet chooses red and white as background colors from colorful colors to set off white walnuts. Look, hidden in the red sleeve. Red and white are distinct, but you want to hide; On the white jade plate, the peach plate is the same color, but it is hidden when it wants to be exposed. Here, a word "look" and a word "no" are used to compare, which not only depicts the color of walnut, but also gives it liveliness and playfulness. This white fruit is like an elf, highlighting itself with the company of Hongluo; And when it rolled into the white jade plate, it seemed to disappear. The above two sentences are vivid enough to make people feel that the white walnut is playing hide-and-seek with people, but in the next two sentences, the poet sublimates a freehand poem to the highest level: "It is suspected that the old monk stopped reciting and Pearl was pushed into the water before her wrist." Here, gems are compared to walnut, expressing the crystallization of walnut. At the same time, the poet gave full play to his peculiar imagination and painted a layer of illusory and blurred color on the small white walnut: no wonder it is so pure and transparent. It turned out that it has been adorned on the wrist of the old monk for a long time, recited by the scriptures for a long time, and left a fragrance by the Buddhist. Where can it not be white? Where can it be unclear? In this atmosphere, people have to try to distinguish: is this thing an ordinary walnut or a gem? This "specious" is really an overwhelming hazy beauty! The word "doubt" in the poem itself shows that it is not true, which gives readers a better imagination space to connect the preceding with the following. The language of this poem is plain, imaginative, fluent and natural, with harmonious melody.
White walnut was originally a vulgar thing, but once it was touched by the great poet Li Bai, it became as beautiful, noble and gorgeous as pearls! The poet's magnificent and peculiar "poetic heart" and ingenious pen of "turning stone into gold" are fully reflected in this little poem, but it is a romantic creative method that does not stop at things and does not limit the shape of painting. In a word, although this poem has no deep meaning, it has a strange conception, a popular and wonderful style, and vividly depicts the image of white walnut.