This is a good example.
Last spring, in this door, the girl's face contrasted with the peach.
This is a good example.
Today, I came here again. I don't know where the girl went. Only the peach blossoms are still there, smiling in full bloom in the spring breeze.
Knowledge expansion:
1. Poetry background
Frontier Ambassador is a seven-character quatrain written by Wang Zhihuan, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, which reflects the poet's feelings about frontier life and his deep concern for the sufferings of war. The poet uses the metaphor of peach blossom and human face to express the pain of parting and the sorrow of war.
2. Description of artistic conception
The first sentence "today last year" directly reveals the temporal and spatial background of the poet's poetry writing, and also implies that the poet, like people at that time, is full of nostalgia and disappointment for the beautiful times. The second sentence, "Peach blossoms with human faces set each other off in red", through the comparison between human faces and peach blossoms, shows that people's suffering in the war and the brilliance of peach blossoms complement each other, forming a sharp contrast, highlighting the contrast between human suffering and natural beauty.
The third sentence "people don't know where to go" emphasizes the pain of human parting, and people don't know where to go, which implies the anxiety and helplessness of border war. The fourth sentence, "Peach blossoms still smile at the spring breeze", peach blossoms still smile at the spring breeze as usual, expressing the eternity and beauty of nature, which is in sharp contrast with the joys and sorrows of human life.
3. Poetic significance
By comparing the peach blossom with the human face, the Ambassador on the Border expresses the poet's anxiety about war and yearning for frontier life. The laughing spring breeze in Peach Blossom is in sharp contrast with the sufferings of human face, which shows the poet's profound reflection on the sufferings of war. The whole poem expresses the poet's concern about the rise and fall of the country and the sufferings of the people, and embodies Wang Zhihuan's thinking about the fate of the world and his yearning for a better life.
4. Introduction to the poet
Wang Zhihuan (688-742), a poet, was a famous writer in the Tang Dynasty. He is good at writing five-character quatrains and seven-character quatrains, and his works are famous for their bold and beautiful, profound artistic conception and sincere feelings. Wang Zhihuan has been to the frontier many times in his life and has a profound understanding of frontier life. Many of his works reflect his concern and thinking about the rise and fall of the country and the sufferings of the people.