Cold food, east wind, and willow trees slanting across the poem:
"Cold Food"
Han Hong
Spring city is full of flowers, cold food, east wind, and willow trees slanting .
At dusk, candles were passed around the Han Palace, and light smoke dispersed into the house of the Five Marquises.
Appreciation of the whole poem:
Hanshi, also known as the No-Smoking Festival, is a traditional festival in ancient my country on the day before Qingming every year. On this day, every household bans fire and eats ready-made cold food. Han Hong's poem describes the customs and scenery of Chang'an during the cold eclipse day.
The poet chose several typical scenes in late spring to describe them. Although he did not use much ink, he vividly and vividly wrote the beautiful scenery of Chang'an during the cold eclipse day. Spring City refers to Chang'an. The metaphor is apt and thought-provoking, reminding people of the breath of spring that pervades Chang'an during the Cold Eclipse Day. There are flying flowers everywhere, using double negative sentence patterns to achieve the purpose of affirmation and emphasis.
In particular, the word "Yifei" is used to turn static into movement, depicting the colorful beauty of Chang'an in late spring with hundreds of flowers blooming, and rendering the colorful and colorful atmosphere even more intense. The second sentence describes the scenery of the imperial city in detail. Yuliu is the willow of Yuyuan. According to the custom at that time, willows were broken off and planted on the door every cold eclipse day as a commemoration. Therefore, the poet specifically wrote about willows. The wind in the imperial city blows the willow branches on the lintel, presenting a scene unique to the Cold Food Festival.
Although the poet here writes about the cold eclipse day in Chang'an, he does not write about the grand scene of spring outings, nor the scenes of people breaking willows to celebrate the festival, but only the scene of flying flowers everywhere and the east wind blowing the willows. It builds momentum for the following and lays the foundation for the description of bestowing the fire of elms and willows on nearby ministers.
At dusk, candles were passed around the Han Palace, and light smoke dispersed into the house of the Five Marquises. The word "rimu" is a turning point, which means that the scene of the Cold Food Festival in the palace is inherited from the previous one, and the time changes from day to night. When night falls, burning candles are passed around the palace and the homes of high-ranking officials, and the thin smoke of the candles floats in the homes of the royal family.
Han Hong’s life:
Han Hong (lived around 754 AD) was a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. His courtesy name was Junping, a native of Nanyang (now part of Henan). In the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754), he became a Jinshi. In the first year of Baoying of Suzong (762), he served in the shogunate of Hou Xiyi, the Jiedushi envoy of Ziqing. Later, Hou Xiyi returned to the court and lived in Chang'an for ten years. In the late period of Dali (766-779), he successively entered the Bian, Song, and Xuanwu Jiedushi shogunate offices, served as a judge in Dali, and served as a member of the school inspection committee and wailang.
In the early days of Jianzhong (780-783), Emperor Dezong appreciated his poem "Han Shi" and was appointed as a doctor in the Jiabu Department, where he knew how to make imperial edicts. Official to Zhongshu Sheren. Han Hong was one of the ten talented people in the Dali Dynasty. Most of his poems were written as farewells, describing scenery. His style was famous for its freshness and strangeness, but sometimes it was dangerous. Hu Zhenheng of the Ming Dynasty commented: Han Junping's poems were excellent, but he was burdened by his extravagant beauty.
Han Hong has made great achievements in poetry creation. He wrote many excellent frontier fortress poems, which are heroic, generous and sad. "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" contains three volumes of his poems. Among them, two poems, "Rewarding the Journey to Yanqiu Night and Seeing the Present at the Event" and "Su Shiyi Mountain", best represent his artistic style. Wrote a Qijue song called "Cold Food". This poem is considered to be original in conception, new in language and full of interest. With beautiful artistic strokes, it depicts a scene of bright spring and revival of all things during the Qingming Festival. This poem was widely praised as soon as it was published, and became a classic poem for later generations to sing about the Cold Food Festival.