It means that a border of leeks grows green in the spring breeze, and the rice fields are filled with the fragrance of pollen.
From "Apricot Curtain in View", selected from "A Dream of Red Mansions" by Cao Xueqin of the Qing Dynasty, it is a five-character poem written by the novel character Lin Daiyu on behalf of Jia Baoyu. In the first couplet of this poem, the first sentence begins with "apricot curtain" and the second sentence begins with "in sight", cleverly including the title and depicting the distant view of the villa.
The original text is as follows:
The apricot curtain invites guests to drink, and there is a villa in sight.
The water chestnuts and geese are in the water, and the mulberry trees and swallows are in the 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.
The translation is as follows:
The yellow wine flag attracts guests to come and have a drink. Looking from a distance, they can only see the vague mountain villa.
Innocent geese play among the water chestnuts, and flying swallows build their nests among the mulberry trees and elm trees.
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 hurriedly farming and weaving all day long!
Extended information:
"Apricot Curtain in View" comes from the 18th chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions". It is one of the eleven "Ode to the Grand View Garden" and is a poem about the Yuan Fei's tour. The work "Praise to Saints and Entertainment" during the Grand View Garden period was written by Lin Daiyu on behalf of Jia Baoyu.
Since this period was the heyday of the Jia Mansion, the Jia Mansion was filled with singing and dancing. In "Ode to the Grand View Garden", the luxurious scene in the Grand View Garden is fully described, filled with words to praise virtues and whitewash peace, revealing strong feudal orthodox thoughts.
But it expresses the thoughts, feelings and character traits of different characters to varying degrees. Lin Daiyu, a rebel in the feudal version, used this poem to express her inner world of hating darkness and despising vulgarity.
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