Baqi San
Bear vs. tiger, elephant vs. rhinoceros
Bears and tigers are both ferocious beasts, and their bodies are quite similar.
The corresponding characteristics of elephants and rhinoceros are that they are both huge animals, and one has ivory and the other has rhinoceros horns, both of which are extremely precious.
Thunderbolt vs. Hauni
Thunderbolt: Rapid and loud thunder is a strong thunder and lightning phenomenon that occurs between clouds and the ground. It is also often used to describe something that happens suddenly and with great momentum. Like a bolt from the blue.
Hauni is the arc of seven colors that appears in the sky when the sky clears up after the rain. It is commonly known as the rainbow.
Thunderbolts and rainbows are both put together correspondences of things that appear in the sky.
Cuckoo vs. Peacock
Cuckoo and peacock are both famous birds known to women and children. Not only are they symmetrical in words, but their names have the same word structure; both have the same origins. Noble, the cuckoo is said to be transformed by the soul of Emperor Wang, while the peacock is inextricably linked to the Phoenix, the king of birds.
Guiling is a mountain covered with osmanthus trees. One of the five ridges in the Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi region.
Plum Creek A stream with plum trees growing on its banks.
Here the laurel trees face the plum trees, and the mountains face the streams. Things that are similar correspond neatly.
Xiao Shifeng, Song Zongji
Xiao Shifeng Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period, the daughter of Duke Mu of Qin, Nong Yu, loved to play the flute.
I don’t want to marry the princes and nobles, but insist on marrying only those who are good at playing the shengxiao.
Huashan Xiao Shi was good at playing the flute and could play the sounds of the luan and the phoenix. Duke Mu married his daughter to Xiao Shi and built a Phoenix Tower for them to live in.
Xiao Shijiao used jade to make phoenixes sing, and the phoenixes gathered on his house. A few years after their marriage, the two immortal lovers were tired of the secular life, so Xiao Shi rode a dragon, made jade and rode a phoenix, and ascended to heaven.
The idioms "playing the jade and playing the flute" and "riding the dragon to speed up the son-in-law" all come from this allusion.
Song Zong's Chicken
"Youming Lu" records: Song Chuzong, the governor of Yan (Yan) Prefecture in the Jin Dynasty, once bought a long-crowing chicken. He loved it so much that he had a custom-made cage. Hanging in front of the window, this chicken can speak human language, talk about love and Chu Zong, and the language is very mysterious. Chuzong of the Song Dynasty often talked with it all day long, so his eloquence became better and better
Far and near vs. high and low
This comes from the Song Dynasty poet Su Shi's "Inscription on the Western Forest Wall":
< p> "It looks like a ridge from the side and a peak from the side.The heights are different from near to far.
If you don’t know the true face of Mount Lu,
you just feel like you are in this mountain."
When the water is cold, fish do not jump, and birds roost frequently in the forest.
When the weather is cold, the fish in the water are not active.
It comes from a poem by Huang Tingjian, a poet of the Song Dynasty:
"The birds migrate to their nests in thin forests, but the fish do not gather in cold water."
Birds roost frequently in the forest
There are many birds inhabiting the dense woods.
It comes from the poem "Autumn Wilds" by Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty: "The fish are happy in the deep water, and the birds know their return in the thick forest."
Yangliu and Yan Pengze County
Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming), a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, had the courtesy name Yuanliang and the nickname Mr. Wuliu. He once served as the magistrate of Pengze County, but later became anonymous and resigned to live in seclusion. In "The Biography of Mr. Wu Liu" he wrote, he said that "there are five willow trees beside the house, so they are named after them."
Heyan refers to the fusion of willow branches and mist like light smoke in spring.
Peach Blossom Flowing Water in Wuling Creek
"Peach Blossom Spring" written by Tao Yuanming writes that during the time of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, there were people in Wuling who made fishing a profession.
One day, the fisherman was boating along the Wuling River and suddenly encountered a beautiful peach blossom forest. "Forget the distance of the road. Suddenly encounter the peach blossom forest." The end of the peach blossom forest is also the source of the stream. Entering along a small valley, there is another world inside. A group of people who fled the wars in the Qin and Han Dynasties lived here. They didn't know the change of Han and Jin dynasties, but they always lived and worked here in peace and contentment.
After he left the Peach Blossom Spring and wanted to look for this place again, he could no longer find it.
This paradise described by Tao Yuanming has since become the most desirable and beautiful pure land in the hearts of Chinese people.
The young master pursues pleasure, and travels around Qimo in leisure time
The young master is a dandy. Riding a horse leisurely around the flower streets and willow lanes. Chasing joy: pursuing joy. Yucong: The name of the horse. Qimo: refers to a bustling street.
The beautiful woman is tired of embroidering, and she is bored with the coral pillow (qī) covering her boudoir
The beautiful woman is tired of embroidering, and lies on her side on the coral pillow in a daze behind closed doors. Tienxiu: Too lazy to embroider. 湹: sideways. Cover, close the door. Xianggui: a woman’s bedroom.
The young master pursues pleasure and is tired of embroidering with the beautiful woman. In leisurely time, Yucong is facing the pillow, and You Qimo is correspondingly covering the fragrant boudoir. In the previous sentence, the young master rises up and gallops forward with great grace. Corresponding to the next sentence, the beautiful lady is waiting for the fragrance of her boudoir, just like a picture scroll.