(Original) Xie Taifu asked his nephew: "How do sons and nephews predict personnel, but just want to make it better?" People have nothing to say, riding a horse replied: "For example, Yushu in Lan Zhi wants to be born in the ears of terraces."
Xie Taifu (Xie An) asked the younger generation at home, "What is the relationship between children and themselves, but why do you want to succeed?" Having nothing to answer, Che Qi (Xie Xuan) replied, "Just like Yushu in Lan Zhi, I always wanted them to grow in my own yard."
Yuan Xian 19 28, Mrs. Wang Jiangzhou thanked her for stopping.
Mrs. Wang Jiangzhou thanked her and said, "Why don't you go back?" Is it a matter of care and limited talent? "
Mrs. Wang Jiangzhou (Wang Ningzhi) (Xie Daowen) said to Xie Zhi (Xie Xuan), "Why haven't you made any progress? Is it a universal thing or a limited talent? " Gather your family and tell your sons and nephews the truth of the article. In a short time, the snow became more and more urgent. Facing the snow scene, Mrs. Xie asked happily, "What does it look like to you?" Huer, the son of the second brother, replied, "It's almost the same to sprinkle salt into the air." Xie Daowen, the eldest brother's daughter, said, "It's better to be lighter than catkins in the wind." Xie Taifu listened and smiled happily. Xie Daowen is the daughter of Xie Taifu's eldest brother and the wife of General Zuo.
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Xie Daowen of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was extremely clever, and her uncle asked to compare with Snow White. Xie Lang said that there was salt in the air, but she replied that the catkin was appreciated by Xie An because of the wind. The story of Xie Taifu praising "the wind blows catkins" was handed down by Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu. People praised Xie Daowen as a talented woman, and later praised the woman who was gifted in poetry creation as a "catkin-chanting genius". There are four poems in the fifth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions: "Jia Baoyu wanders in a dreamland, and plays a dream of red mansions with magic fairy tales": "If the machine can't stop, who will pity the talents! The jade belt hangs in the forest and is buried in the snow. " These four poems imply the tragic fate of Lin Daiyu and the lonely fate of Xue Baochai. The "poet" here refers to Lin Daiyu's extraordinary ability to sing poetry.
Both children used metaphors in their answers. Why does Xie Taifu like the latter? As we know, the so-called metaphor is to describe or explain thing A and use thing B with similar characteristics as an analogy, which is the most commonly used rhetoric. Using metaphors well can make profound truths easy to understand and clear, and make abstract things concrete and vivid, concise and vivid. Snowflakes are characterized by cleanliness.