Zhu Qingyu <
The gate of the courtyard is closed when the flowers are quiet, and the beauties stand side by side in the palace.
He wanted to talk about palace affairs with passion, but the parrot in front did not dare to say anything.
There are countless poems about the complaints of palace ladies in Tang poetry, but most of them are about a lonely palace lady who has fallen out of favor. This poem is the only one in which two palace ladies appear at the same time. In the Yutai Pavilion where spring is coming, I stood leaning on the railing with my heart full of thoughts. When I was about to express my depression, I didn't dare to speak because of the parrot in front of me. Of course, parrot here does not necessarily refer to a bird, but may be a metonym for a snitch.
Zhang Hu "He Manzi"
The homeland is three thousand miles away, and the palace has been deep in the palace for twenty years.
With the sound of "He Manzi", tears fell in front of you.
Leaving my hometown and locking myself into a deep palace, the spring flowers and autumn moon are like the passage of time. There is no love, no ordinary life, watching the beauty grow old little by little in the torture of hopelessness. This inhuman life is more than lonely.