The next line to a border of spring leeks is the fragrance of rice flowers ten miles away. "Lingyang goose water" is a reference to "Dream of Red Mansions". When Lin Daiyu wrote poems for Jia Baoyu during the Yuanchun Provincial Order, her style was natural and skillful, delicate but not rigid, and had the personal characteristics of Daiyu's poems.
Water chestnut with water chestnuts
Cao Xueqin
The apricot curtain invites guests to drink, and there is a villa in the distance.
Water chestnuts and goose water, mulberry elm and swallow beams.
A border of spring leeks is green, 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. Looking from a distance, they can 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 prosperous age of enlightenment, there will no longer be famine and cold, so why bother farming and weaving?
Explanation of poems
The couplet "The water chestnuts and geese are in the water, and the mulberry trees and swallows are in the beams" paint a vivid picture: geese are playing and swimming in the pond full of water chestnuts. , swallows fly out from the mulberry forest with mud in their mouths, and build their nests between the roof beams. This couplet only uses nouns to form verses, without using verbs or adjectives. This is a special syntax of Chinese classical poetry.
Is the second couplet "water chestnut water and goose water, mulberry elm and swallow beam" done well? Which of these two sentences is the subject? Which is the predicate? No. There are no verbs or adjectives, just nouns put together, "Ling Xing Goose Water". This is the special syntax of poetry. You can imagine that the geese are playing in the water, and there are water chestnuts on the water. Don't tell them. Just use "Lingxiang Goose Water", and the same goes for "Mulberry Swallow Liang". The swallows go back and forth in the trees, making their own nests from the branches of the mulberry and elm trees, and then come back to make their own bird's nests. You can do this yourself. Just imagine. It is such a kind of syntax, which is a particularly neat syntax.
"Liquid water chestnuts and geese are in the water, and mulberry elms and swallows are in the beams." This poem can be compared with "The fish come out in the drizzle, and the swallows slant in the breeze." Frost." This is one of Lin Daiyu's many best sentences.