Only Cao Xueqin's "Apricot Curtain in View" contains the two elements of leek green and rice flower fragrance.
"The Apricot Curtain Is Looking at" by Cao Xueqin (Qing Dynasty)
The apricot curtain invites guests to drink, and there is a villa in sight.
Lingyin and goose are in the water, and mulberry and swallow are in the beam.
A border is green with spring leeks, and ten miles of rice flowers are fragrant.
When there is no hunger or discouragement in the prosperous age, there is no need to be busy with farming and weaving.
Translation:
The yellow wine flag attracts guests to come and have a drink, and from a distance, they can only see the vague mountain villa. The lake surface planted with water chestnuts is a place for geese to play in the water, and the branches and leaves of mulberry and elm trees are the roof beams for swallows to build their nests. A border of leeks grows green in the spring breeze, and the rice fields are filled with the fragrance of pollen. In the enlightened and prosperous age, there will no longer be famine and cold, so why bother farming and weaving? Extended information
"Apricot Curtain in View" comes from the 18th chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions". It is one of the eleven "Ode to the Grand View Garden". It is the "Praise to the Saints" when the Yuan Concubine visited the Grand View Garden. The work was written by Lin Daiyu on behalf of Jia Baoyu.
In the first couplet of this poem, the first sentence begins with "apricot curtain" and the second sentence begins with "in sight", cleverly including the title and depicting the distant view of the villa. The two couples in the middle fight against each other. The couplet does not use verbs, but only uses nouns. It combines several images to form a lively picture of a farmhouse. The neck couplet uses normal word order, making it fluent and catchy. The tail couplet can especially reflect Daiyu's intelligence.
The poem quotes allusions, the writing style is delicate, the whole poem alternates between movement and stillness, the color and taste are harmonious, and it is full of a comfortable and contented mountain atmosphere.