Swallow is a migratory bird, which migrates with the change of seasons, and likes to enter and leave people's houses or eaves in pairs. Therefore, it is favored by the ancients and often appears in ancient poems, or cherishes spring and hurts autumn, or exaggerates sadness, or entrusts with lovesickness, or is sentimental about current events, with rich images and expressions that are beyond the reach of other things.
(1) expresses the beauty of spring and conveys the feeling of cherishing spring. According to legend, swallows come to the north in spring and return to the south in autumn, so many poets beautify and praise it as a symbol of spring. Such as "hidden deep in the haze of flowers, swallows' new milk" (Wei's "On the Friends of the Capital"), "Swallows come, the news agency is behind, and the pear blossoms are clear" (special banquet. Everything is full of rhythm "(Georgie's Jing Tian Sand). That's the way it is ")," Birds grow in Screaming Trees, Swallows hold yellow willow flowers "(Zhang Kejiu's" Pinglan Man ". Late spring is a thing). Shi Dazu, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote in Shuang Yan with Yan as his word. Yan Yong: "We are still carving beams and painting buildings, but we can't discuss them in soft language. We are floating, brush the flowers quickly. "The poet will feel infinite sadness, so Ouyang Xiu sighed," When all the tourists go, they will feel the spring sky. At the end of the curtain, the two swallows return to drizzle "(picking mulberries), and Qiao Ji lamented that" the swallow hides the title of spring, the warbler is ashamed to find a companion, cold and lazy to report to the official (picking honey), crying for hunger "(Narcissus).
(2) show the beauty of love and convey the yearning for the lover. Swallows always fight with each other and fly with each other, thus becoming a symbol of love. "Thinking of flying together, holding mud in your home", "Yan Er is newly married, like brothers" (The Book of Songs). ), "Yan Yan Yu Fei is different from her feathers. This has aroused lovers' desire to fly with me. Only in the empty boudoir did I feel lonely (Yesterday's Salt), melancholy and jealousy (Yan's Linjiang Xian) and Roman. Swallows go to Cuilou first "(Zhou Deqing's" Happy Spring ") is melancholy and cold, and there is nostalgia for" the flowers are far away, the jade falls and hurts the spring, and the Dongfeng Caotang flies "(Zhang Kejiu's" Qingjiang Yin Yin "). All this is endless.
(3) Express the changes of current events, and express feelings and indignation over the past ups and downs, personnel metabolism, national subjugation and family destruction. Swallows leave in autumn and come in spring, never forgetting their old nests. The poet seized this feature and vented his indignation to the fullest. The most famous is Liu Yuxi's "Wuyi Xiang": "Weeds bloom at the Suzaku Bridge, and the sunset sets at Wuyi Xiang Kou. In the old society, Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people. " Wandering around the fragrant trail in the small garden (Huanxisha), Li's Swallow Comes Back to Embroider the Curtain, Nowhere to Find the Old Nest (Former Residence of Jinmenhuai), and Jiang Kui's Swallow Carelessly Goes with the Cloud to the West Bank of Taihu Lake. Several peaks are bitter, and it is rainy in Shang Lue. "(Little crimson lips). (Jinling post) Swallow has no intention, but witnessed the changes of current events, endured the suffering of the country's destruction and death, and showed the sadness of the poet's "separation". The load is heavy.
(4) The book handed down from generation to generation tells about the pain of leaving love. In the Tang Dynasty, Guo Shaolan passed on his Yanzu poems to her husband Renzong. Injong left home for Jiahu and never returned for several years. Shao Lan wrote a poem about Yanzu. Living in Jingzhou at that time, Yan suddenly berthed his shoulders. As soon as he posted a book on his foot, it was sent by his wife and he came back in tears. His poem "seeing off the husband" says: "I" just because of the affection of the swallow, my husband changed his mind and the husband and wife met. Guo Shaolan was lucky, but some unfortunate women borrowed Swallow's books, but there was no news, such as "Sad Swallow left a red line under her feet, annoying Luan Ying's idle fans" (Zhang Kejiu Sai Qiu Hongchun's love), "The tearful-eyed building was alone, and when Shuang Yan came, did she meet strangers?"
(5) Express the feeling of wandering and describe the pain of wandering. "Sacredness, intuition and analogy are the dominant thinking modes of the Han nationality" (Zhang Dainian's "China Thinking Bias"), flowers, birds, insects and fish are all written by literati, and birds and animals are all poets. Goose mourns autumn, ape sings clothes, and fish spreads feet. The cicada sends high, but the swallow lives in uncertainty. Or the ups and downs of life experience, "Looking at Chang 'an from afar, the future is a little bit, and the journey is difficult from south to north" (Zhang Kejiu's "Palace Front"); Or leave each other when they meet, "like a social couple, they will send each other when they meet unsteadily" (Su Shi's "Send Chen Yu Tan Zhou"); Sometimes there are "magnets fly, mica comes to water, earth dragons bring rain, and geese fly instead" (Liu An's Huai Nan Zi). Swallow is no longer just a swallow, but has become a symbol of China's traditional culture, blending into the blood of every Chinese descendant.