The image of the partridge can easily evoke the association of a dangerous journey and the sadness of parting. Its cry is like "brother who can't do it", full of parting emotions, causing longing, and the sound is sad, causing melancholy. There are many male and female calls, singing in harmony, which is often used to describe the husband's singing, the wife's accompanying, the male's love and the female's love.
Partridge - sorrow of separation, sadness, calling for brother, arousing longing, a sad voice, arousing melancholy, many male and female singing in opposite directions, each singing in harmony, often used to describe the husband's singing, the wife's accompanying, the love of the man and the love of the woman.
In classical poetry, there are often the following cultural meanings and symbols:
One is farewell. The beautiful woman held the man's hand, looked at each other with tears in her eyes, and sobbed: Brother, brother, don't go (you can't do it, brother). It is often used as a metaphor to cherish farewell. "The Song of Xiangjiang River" written by Zhang Ji of the Tang Dynasty: "The Xiang River is broad in autumn when there is no tide, and the moon sets in the middle of Hunan. Passengers send their hair. Send people's hair, send them back, and partridges fly in the vast expanse of white duckweeds." The image of partridge is used to express the sorrow of separation.
The second is sadness. Because of its mournful sound, it often represents difficult situations and melancholy moods. You Dong of the Qing Dynasty wrote in "Hearing the Partridge": "In the sound of partridges, the sun is setting in the west, and the heads of soldiers on the roads are all bowed. The mountains are blocked all over the place, so for whom are they crowing to their heart's content?" In the sound of partridges, people on the road are walking in front of the road. It is unpredictable and the miserable desperation is evident. The image of "partridge" appearing in ancient poems often conveys a sad meaning, such as in Li Bai's "Looking at the Past in Yue Zhong" "The palace ladies are like flowers all over the spring palace, but now only partridges are flying."
The third is love. Because the male and female like to sing to each other and sing in harmony, it is often used as a metaphor for the husband's singing and the wife's following, and the man's joy and the woman's love. The image is like "swallow" and "mandarin duck". Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty wrote "Treading Lyrics": "The moon rises over the spring river on the embankment, and the girls walk hand in hand on the embankment. I sing all the new lyrics of "happy but not seen", and the red clouds reflect the trees and the partridges sing." Use the harmony of the partridges to complement "happy but not seen" The loneliness. For example, the partridges in Wen Tingyun and Li Xun's poem "Bodhisattva Man" all have this image, such as "double golden partridges", "double flying partridges", etc., to mention a few.
The fourth is lovesickness. Caused by love, the pain of separation and sadness arise spontaneously, which is the culmination of the above. Li Yi's "Partridge Ci": "The bamboo branches of the Xiang River are mottled, and the golden-winged partridges fly. The Xiangyun is everywhere, where does the man return from?" The woman in the boudoir misses her lover far away. The pain of lovesickness is implicit and rhyming.