1, quatrains (Du Fu) Beautiful mountains and rivers, fragrant flowers and spring breeze. Swallows are busy nesting in wet mud and sleeping in pairs on the warm beach.
2, birdsong Jian (Wang Wei) people are idle osmanthus, and the night is quiet and spring. When the moon comes out, the birds are startled, and the sound enters the spring stream.
The reason why spring appears so frequently in ancient poetry is related to China's agricultural civilization since ancient times.
A characteristic of a big agricultural country is that "food is the most important thing for the people", which occupies an important position in the long history of people's production and life. When it comes to food, it naturally involves the 24 solar terms, China. According to the agricultural life experience of the ancients in China, it goes without saying that the four seasons are important.
There is a record in Hanshu Shihuozhi: "Spring makes people go wild". It can be seen that even in thousands of years of ancient times, spring also represents sowing, hope, youth and life. This season, which is closely related to natural life, is naturally contained in the poet's emotional connotation and becomes a part of China's poetry.
The reason why spring is the theme of poetry;
In ancient China, there were the most festivals in spring. In spring, many places have ceremonial activities such as welcoming the spring, whipping the spring, singing the spring and worshiping the spring, offering sacrifices to the spring god and starting farming.
The love affair between men and women in ancient China often happened in spring. Because there are some special New Year holidays in spring, will men and women who have never met each other provide a chance to fall in love? For example, the Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and March 3rd were all extremely grand festivals in ancient times.