question 2: the image of cloud in ancient poetry "as a common image in China's classical poetry, has been noticed by people for a long time, and has entered the aesthetic of poetry. There is something in the Book of Songs:
Out of its east gate, there are women like clouds. Although it is like a cloud, it is not my thought.
Zheng Feng Out of the East Gate
I'm stuck in the beam, but the fish are poor. Qi Zi returns, and it follows like a cloud.
The white clouds in Ying Ying reveal the luxuriant grass. The day is hard, but the son is not still alive
Bai Hua, an official of all people
The "cloud" in the book of songs means "more". Due to the limitation of understanding, seeing the long clouds in the sky is actually for many people, so it is considered that there are many. There are also sighs caused by the floating clouds, such as the sentence "Ying Ying White Clouds". Seeing the white clouds floating leisurely and thinking of the hardship of fortune, it is somewhat melancholy and has a symbolic sememe.
There are also many "clouds" in Chu Ci, such as:
Clouds are drifting away from each other, and handsome clouds come to meet Qu Yuan's Li Sao.
Clouds come to meet, just like relatives and friends, which shows that the poet gives "clouds" whatever he wants and is romantic.
the heaven is wide open, and I take advantage of the mysterious clouds.
Qu Yuan's Priestess of Death
This cloud can "multiply", which paves the way for traveling. Can the cloud do it? Poets think and do!
Zhi Yuan's vision is far away, and he pities the sheep of the floating clouds.
Qu Yuan's Sad Return to the Air
sticks to it alone, sighing at the floating clouds forever.
Song Yu's Nine Arguments. Four
The "floating clouds" are floating in the sky, which seems to be Gao Zhi's ideal, but inevitably "floating" and uncertain. Clouds are inevitably uncontrollable because of their "floating", so it is inevitable that Gao Zhi will be suspected. This "floating cloud" is really an emotional cloud in the poet's heart.
If the "cloud" in The Book of Songs is still a collective consciousness, then the "cloud" in The Songs of the South has been more personalized. The "cloud" in The Book of Songs is still mostly in the physical object and its original meaning, while the "cloud" in The Songs of the South pays more attention to the poet's emotional experience and color. For example, "Yun Ni" becomes an anthropomorphic object and welcomes the poet; It is a "cloud" used by poets to cover the sun; "Xuanyun" is a dark cloud, which has the great potential of riding in the wind; Taking "Qingyun" as the dress and "white neon" as the dress, the poet's spirit is relaxed and strong; Sometimes, "clouds fly" pervades the sky, as if all the poets' joy were covered, and "clouds" means dark forces; The "floating clouds" in the poet's mind contain a sense of floating away from uncertainty, which floats as if it were his will, thus giving out a voice of lament; "Cloudy" obviously refers to the hope that the sun (light forces) will shine in the sky and hate the dark clouds (dark forces) to be misty. In a word, the image of "cloud" in Chu Ci has a strong personality, which contains more symbolic meaning than its original meaning. As an image, it has been endowed with different ideas by the author in different poetry works. For example, in Lu Sidao's "Joining the Army", he borrowed the phrase "Meet Maling Huangshahe and look forward to Yun Qi in the evening." It has shaped a fierce and long scene of fighting. The "cloud" here is based on the similarity between the dense and heavy image form of the cloud and the dignified and tense battle. Through the sustenance of this image, the battle scene is more vivid and highlights its heavy; It also makes a sense of war-weariness euphemistically expressed. The "cloud" written in Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower is "the yellow crane never revisited earth, and white clouds are flying without him for ever." . The "White Clouds" here focus on comparing its long-lasting and still-the-same scene with the reality that cranes are gone, the ancients are gone, and the years are gone, and it gives a deep sigh for the world.
Wang Wei likes to write clouds best in his poems. "Among Wang Wei's 489 existing poems (according to Zhao Diancheng's Annotations on Wang Youcheng Collection), according to preliminary statistics, there are 83 poems with the image of' cloud', which shows that' cloud' is a central image in Wang Wei's poems."
as we all know, "emptiness" is a central concept in Wang Wei's poems. But "emptiness" is also one of the highest categories of Buddhism, and it is the abstract speculation of Buddhist philosophy on the universe and life. The "emptiness" of Buddhism does not mean that there is nothing. There are always all kinds of "being" in the world, and what Buddhists emphasize is to realize "emptiness" from "being". Wang Wei's most admired Vajraja Sutra, the Diamond Sutra and the Lengga Sutra all advocate this view that "all laws are illusory and there is no fixed phase". Wang Wei accepted the illusion view, and he tried his best to look at the illusion view in the world, which had a great influence on Wang Wei's art, which was manifested in his poems, that is, when describing natural scenery, he not only focused on the description of outstanding features, but also explored the meaning contained in external forms. Buddhists say that reality is not reality. Wang Wei's poems always try to highlight the illusory nature of real things, so they have a detached, ethereal and implicit beauty. ③
At the same time, among all things in nature, the cloud seems to be the most unpredictable thing. It is varied and changeable, just like a variety of uncertain things; It changes so instantaneously that the clustered entities suddenly ... > >
Question 3: What is the meaning of the poem "Clouds give birth to rain"?
Where there are clouds, there will be rain, where there is soil, there will be fields, and time flies like water. Only true love can make people have bright eyes and see right and wrong clearly. With a generous mind, life will be happy.
Original text:
Clouds give birth to rain, Toshoda, time gives birth to fleeting years, love gives birth to bright eyes, generosity gives birth to smiles.