Because snowflakes are white and reed flowers are also white, the snowflakes "fly into the reed flowers" and become completely invisible.
This poem comes from a seven-character quatrain "Ode to Snow" written by the Qing Dynasty poet and calligrapher Zheng Banqiao. This poem uses the technique of first closing and then releasing to blend the snowflakes with the vast white reed flowers. The beautiful scenery is very moving. This poem uses digital literature to express popular poetry. The description is extremely clear, simple and easy to understand.
The original text of the poem is as follows:
One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five, six, seven, eight or ninety pieces.
Thousands of countless pieces fly into the reed flowers but are never seen.
In vernacular, it means one snowflake, two snowflakes, three four snowflakes, five, six, seven, eighty or ninety snowflakes. Thousands of countless pieces, countless in number, were flying in the sky. The snowflakes merged into the reed flowers, blended into one and disappeared.
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The author of this poem is Zheng Banqiao (1693-1765), a calligrapher, painter and writer in the Qing Dynasty. His original name was Zheng Xie, his courtesy name was Kerou, and his name was Li'an. Banqiao, known as Mr. Banqiao, is an important representative of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". When Zheng Banqiao first arrived in Yangzhou, he was in poverty. He happened to meet Ma Yue Guan and Ma Yue Lu, and they formed a profound friendship. Later, the three of them visited the Xiaolinglong Mountain Pavilion and composed an impromptu poem "Song of Snow" with the theme of snowflakes.
Zheng Banqiao, who is famous for his bamboo paintings, also likes to use numbers in poetry. In addition to this "Ode to Snow", his number poem "Ode to Bamboo" is also unique: "One, two or three bamboo poles, Four to five six bamboo leaves; naturally light and sparse, why overlap with each other?" The poem only uses a few simple numbers, but it expresses the grace and charm of bamboo.
The main meaning of this poem is the abundance, whiteness and beauty of snowflakes. The numbers one, three, five, etc. in the poem are all imaginary numbers. They are not really just a few snowflakes. Zheng Banqiao uses numbers mainly to tell people in this way that the beauty and beauty of the snow scene are in front of people's eyes. Shows a beautiful scene of heavy snowfall.
The first two sentences of the poem are written in fiction, and the last two sentences are written in reality. The contrast between virtuality and reality creates a fresh artistic conception. The first three sentences seem ordinary, lingering in the trough, but at the end of the fourth sentence, with a profound artistic conception that is suitable for both movement and stillness, the whole poem is suddenly pushed from the trough to the peak.
Almost the whole poem is piled up with numbers, from one to ten to a thousand to ten thousand to countless, but it is not cumbersome at all. Reading it makes people feel like they are in the vast sky and heavy snow, but Seeing the reed flowers standing proudly in the snow, glowing against the cold, the snowflakes merged into the reed flowers, and people also merged into the snowflakes and reed flowers.
Such poems are called reverse elegy, also called reversal poetry, iambic poetry, steep turn poetry, and elegant and popular poetry. Its biggest feature is that the author deliberately writes with extremely ordinary sentences at the beginning, giving people a feeling of being ordinary or even disappointed. However, at the end of the poem, especially at the end, he uses unexpected writing. And the reverse turns into a strange trend, leading readers into a new realm of poetry.