Why do poets compare women to lotus flowers in their mistakes?

In the traditional cultural heritage of China, the image of "Lotus" is holy, elegant and unconventional, and is often used to describe women's faces. Wu's "The Giver": "Hemp clothes are like plums in the snow, and I sleep with a smile and little makeup. If you go to Yuexi to meet Yue Nv, the red lotus pond will open white lotus. " The female Taoist priest who wrote hemp came to a stream in Yue State and walked into a group of women in red, just like a graceful white lotus in a red lotus. For example, "Zheng Fengshan has a hidden element": "The mountain has a hidden element, Ji has a lotus flower, and you are crazy if you don't see your child", which means using lotus flowers to describe women. Reading Quge, a Yuefu poem of the Six Dynasties, says: "Red hibiscus in Chiba shines on the edge of green water, and the residual flowers are picked by Lang, so you can't stop cultivating lotus", and "If you can't hold it when you laugh, the lotus will die". "Lotus" is homophonic and pun, referring to women. In the poem "Jiangnan": "Jiangnan can pick lotus leaves, and ask lotus leaves in the rain." Lotus also refers to women. In the Tang Dynasty, in the poem "Fish under the hibiscus leaves", in Xue Tao's poem, "Always shake the tail of Zhu as a silver hook and swing hibiscus flowers for no reason". Meng Jiao complained in the poem: "Try to shed tears on my concubine and your husband, there are two drops of water in the pool. Look at the hibiscus, who died for this year? " All use hibiscus as a metaphor for women. There is a poem in Wen Tingyun's "Annoying Song": "The courtyard in Sanqiu is green and welcoming the frost, and only the lotus leaves red and withers", which is about her daughter's infatuation. From the above example, it has a long history to use lotus as a symbol of women. Jiangnan is rich in lotus flowers. The poem said: "I walked through the south of the Yangtze River, and naturally I used lotus as a symbol of women."

In addition, lotus also contains noble and beautiful images in China literature. For example, "Li Sao" "Lotus thinks clothes, lotus thinks clothes."

That's what petticoats mean. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were many hibiscus gifts, and hibiscus was often compared with Bide. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, most scholars have also

It is a portrayal of lotus as a personality. This is true of China's ancient literature, Indian classical literature and Buddhism. Qian Zhongshu in Conversation

"Yue:" Actually, lotus is a noble person. " Huang Tingjian's poem: "Lotus flowers and peanuts in mud show anger and joy", and Su Shi's poem: "Lotus flowers grow from mud, fungus grows from dung", all of which use Buddhist terms to express their thoughts. In Indian classical literature, many people use lotus flowers to compare the beauty of characters. For example, the famous epic Ramayana says, "Siddhartha Benlang.

Lotus eyes, although she is beautiful, covered in mud, like a lotus root covered with mud, but the beautiful flash is not obvious. "It is to praise the beauty of women. Although Buddhism is a religion whose main purpose is to relieve the suffering of life, in Buddhism, lotus is also a symbol of beauty. For example, Ode to the Buddhist Academy said that the Buddha's mother was "as beautiful as a lotus". Buddha has "lotus hands and lotus eyes like mud" and so on. "Lotus hand" and "Lotus eye" seem to be difficult to understand, but in fact they are nothing more than holy and beautiful.

As far as the characteristics of literature are concerned, literature not only pursues visualization, but also strives for the beauty of visualization. Clear, elegant and fragrant lotus flowers are especially suitable for expressing this image. Therefore, writers at all times and all over the world, especially poets, especially like lotus flowers when choosing metaphors.

Based on the above examples, it is not difficult for us to understand why this modern China poet "writes with Chinese characters, with accurate image, gorgeous voice and beautiful beauty" will say that "he looks like a lotus in the season".

I mistakenly think that a woman's face is as moist as a lotus flower and her feelings are as pure as a lotus flower, but she has sent away endless loneliness and disappointment in the long waiting for her return home. "Lotus" flowers bloom and fall, showing the cycle of seasons and time. How can a girl's face stand up to several flowers? In in my heart forever, Wang Changling shows the image of a young woman who is homesick and helpless. Beauty is easy to get old, youth is easy to get old, and even a beautiful girl can't stand the toss of time. But here, there is no other way but to wait. It is heartless for the poet to express time with the image of "lotus", which leaves us a huge imagination space: how long will this girl have to wait? How long has she been waiting? Will she wait?