The poems describing catkins include:
1. The spring river is about to end, and the staff and quinoa slowly stand on Fangzhou. The crazy catkins go with the wind, and the light peach blossoms float with the water. ——Tang Du Fu's "Nine Quatrains"
Interpretation: It is said that the spring river scenery is fragrant and beautiful, but when spring is about to end, how can we not feel sad? Walking along the river head with a cane, standing on Fangzhou, I saw catkins fluttering wildly in the wind, and peach blossoms chasing the water.
2. Whoever harvests the beauty of spring will go back, and half of the slow green and red demons will remain. The elm pods can only be picked up along with the catkins and wander around the empty garden. ——Tang Hanyu's "Late Spring"
Interpretation: Who is going to take back this spring scenery? The red and green flowers and plants are already half open and half withered. A gust of wind passed by, and the elm pods on the treetops could only follow the catkins floating in the air.
3. It’s full of daylight in March, and it’s time to say goodbye to Spring. The oriole is trying to teach the way to Yanghua, but it will not let go if it disturbs the spring breeze. ——Tang Bai Juyi's "Catkins"
Interpretation: The image of catkins flying and lingering in late spring in March, and pedestrians' hair turning white due to the catkins, expresses the poet's sentiment of cherishing spring.
This poem uses the rhetorical technique of personification. The white poem personifies the yellow warbler and the poplar flower, arranging the yellow warbler to send a message to the poplar flower, so that the poplar flower will entangle the footsteps of spring and prevent it from returning.
4. Catkins fly in Jiangcheng in March, and tourists send people home after five years. Therefore, my tears of farewell and hometown tears will wet your clothes today. ——Tang Rongyu's "Recruitment Returns Hometown"
Interpretation: In March, catkins fly all over the sky in Jiangcheng, and tourists who have been there for five years are sending people home today. I am about to be far away from my hometown, so I shed tears of farewell. Today’s tears will wet your clothes.
5. Time outside things does not belong to spring. Let the scenery accompany the good times. Who cares if you are drunk? The catkins are still floating in the garden and it is snowing, and the pear blossoms are filled with dreamy clouds. The bamboo fence falls into the waterside gate. ——Song Ye Mengde's "Huanxi Sand"
Interpretation: The objects and time outside do not belong to spring anymore. For the time being, I will remember the scenery and use it to accompany me when I am good. Who will care about melancholy people when they come home drunk? Catkins float down like flying snow, and pear blossoms fall like clouds in a dream among the bamboo forests and by the water.