The Willow
He Zhangzhi [Tang Dynasty]
Jasper dressed as a tree, hanging down ten thousand green silk tapestries.
I don't know who cut the thin leaves, but the spring breeze in February is like scissors.
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Willow leaves are like jasper, dotted with high willows. Thousands of weeping willows are like fluttering green ribbons. I wonder who cut this thin willow leaf. This is the spring breeze in February. Like a magic pair of scissors.
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The first sentence of the poem, "Jasper is made up as high as a tree", personifies the tree, compares the willow to a girl after makeup, and depicts the lovely and youthful willow image. The second sentence, "A tapestry of ten thousand strands of moss hangs down", compares willow leaves to the moss nepotism hung down by a girl. The third and fourth sentences "I don't know who cut the thin leaves, and the spring breeze in February is like scissors" compare the spring breeze to scissors, grasp the characteristics of weeping willows, and show the magic and dexterity of the spring breeze. The last two sentences of this poem combine metaphor and rhetorical question. First of all, who cut such a thin Liu Yeer? Praise willow leaves in one sentence first, then praise the beauty of spring and the ingenuity of nature, which vividly shows everything bred by spring breeze and sets off infinite beauty. The whole poem expresses the poet's joy in early spring.