The peach blossoms on the human face contrast with each other
——Appreciation of ancient poems about peach blossoms (Part 1)
Wang Chuanxue
Spring is the season of flowers, The world of flowers. When people think of spring, they think of the gorgeous peach blossoms. Because peach blossoms bloom in mid-spring, they are youthful and delicious, and often become a symbol of the arrival of spring.
The blooming of peach blossoms announces the true arrival of spring. "The scenery in February is full of peach and plum blossoms in spring" (Tang Gao Jin's "A Banquet at Gao's Linting Pavilion" by Gao Jin of the Tang Dynasty), "Three or two branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo are a prophet of the warmth of the spring river" ("Evening View of the Spring River in Huichong" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty), When three or two branches of peach blossoms peek out from the bamboo forest, it is when the river water is melting and the weather is getting warmer, showing the vitality of spring. "The peach blossoms bloom first in spring, and who doesn't see the beauty?" (Peach Blossoms by Zhou Pu of the Tang Dynasty). The spring mood is getting stronger, and the peach blossoms are dyed with boundless spring colors. How can this gorgeous color and bright breath not be lovable and make people love it? People rush to watch it? In this way, peach blossoms have quietly integrated into the cultural blood of the Chinese people and become the spring complex in people's aesthetic vision.
Among the ancient poems about peach blossoms, many of them praise the beauty, beauty and charm of peach blossoms. For example, "Peach Blossom" by Wu Rong, a poet of the Tang Dynasty:
The trees are full of delicate red flowers,
Thousands of red branches are shining brightly in spring.
How can it be accomplished for thousands of years?
It will show the work of creation in the world.
This poem uses a charming girl as a metaphor for peach blossoms, praising the beauty of peach blossoms. The first two sentences are filled with peach blossoms on the tree, brilliant red and extremely beautiful. Due to the foreshadowing of "manchu trees" and "bright romance", the "red" color appears rich and warm. Thousands of trees are as bright as brocade, and peach blossoms are as bright as red clouds, showing a strong sense of spring. Everything in spring seems to be melted by its delicate colors. The last two sentences lead to the poet's wish, hoping that the peach blossoms will bloom and bear fruit and benefit mankind. The exaggerated phrase "Ten thousand branches of red flowers bloom in spring" brings the beauty of the peach blossoms in full bloom before the readers' eyes.
In the spring of March, peach blossoms are in season, the trees are dyed with rouge, and the branches are hung with red clouds. The peach blossoms really take over the spring beauty of the world:
Thousands of rich and fragrant flowers are leaning on the trees,
The branches are decorated with chaotic clouds.
Don’t be afraid to look at it in the wind.
This is the flower that occupies the spring light.
This poem "Peach Blossom" by Bai Minzhong, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, writes that the shadows of peach blossoms in March are swaying red, as bright as clouds, and looking at it in the wind, it feels like spring. Peach blossoms embellish the spirit of spring and become an irreplaceable protagonist on the spring stage.
The bright spring scenery and gorgeous peach blossoms are full of the breath of life. Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Seven Quatrains Alone by the River Looking for Flowers" Part 5), which describes the peach blossoms in front of Huangshi Pagoda, which is very affectionate:
The river is east of the river in front of Huangshi Pagoda.
< p> Spring is lazy and sleepy, relying on the breeze.A cluster of peach blossoms has no owner,
Cute dark red, do you love light red?
The peach blossoms are blooming in clusters, not for others, but for the sake of showing their own beauty! People who come to enjoy the peach blossoms, do you like dark red peach blossoms or light red peach blossoms? A fresh, cheerful, lively and interesting breath of spring suddenly hit my face, full of the joy of life. The sentence "Lovely crimson loves light red" uses two words of love and two words of red to express the poet's delight in the beauty of peach blossoms, and ends with a rhetorical question. It is not only interesting, but also refers to oneself and others. This is It expands the scope of aesthetics and strengthens the sense of beauty.
Peach blossoms mostly grow in the wild and even in mountain streams, and have strong vitality. The poet Liu Changqing of the Tang Dynasty praised the peach blossoms in his "Eight Miscellaneous Odes to Li Shilang of the Ministry of Rites: Wan Peach":
In April, at the bottom of the deep stream, the peach blossoms are about to bloom.
It is better to know that the terrain is lower, so the spring breeze is deflected.
The poem says: Under the deep stream in April, there is a peach tree burning like a flame. It knows that it is in a low status, so it tries to make the spring breeze deviate from its original direction to favor itself. This is a high tribute to a life that is tenacious and unyielding in deep difficulties, full of passion for life and high-spirited spirit.
Bai Juyi, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, also praised the peach blossoms in April in his poem "Peach Blossoms in Dalin Temple":
The beauty of April in the world is exhausted,
Mountain Temple The peach blossoms are beginning to bloom.
I always regret that there is no place to return to in spring,
I don’t know where to turn.
The poet regards peach blossoms as the embodiment of spring, and is overjoyed to see peach blossoms in the mountains in April, expressing his feelings of cherishing and loving spring.
"Two Colored Peach" by Shao Yong, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, is also a masterpiece praising peach blossoms:
Both the pink and the pink are beautiful,
The beauty of the country and the city different.
It is suspected that they are the twin sisters of Ruigong,
They joined hands to marry Dongfeng for a while.
Bicolor peach is one of the varieties of peach. Its flowers are red and white and bloom on the same stem. This poem uses anthropomorphic techniques, focuses on people's visual images, vividly reproduces the beauty of the two-color peach, and reveals the poet's love for peach blossoms.
The peach blossoms are in full bloom, with lovely colors. The red ones are charming and bright, while the white ones are elegant and elegant. They are particularly delicate, soft, beautiful and graceful in the sunshine.
In life, people often say that the orchid is a gentleman with great moral integrity, the chrysanthemum is a hermit who is free and comfortable, and the plum blossom is a fighter that becomes stronger after frost. Then, the peach blossom is a graceful and gorgeous beauty. . This depends on the fact that the properties displayed by peach blossoms are mostly similar to the feminine beauty of human women. Peach blossoms are very brilliant and full of vitality. Its slightly exaggerated color, aroma and posture can give people a sense of life, surging with infinite vitality and vitality. The delicate and soft nature of peach blossoms can easily make people think of a young woman full of vitality. Because of this, peach blossoms have been used as a metaphor for beautiful women since ancient times. In "The Book of Songs·Zhou Nan", "The peach blossoms shine brightly", and the peach blossoms are used to sing about the charm of a newlywed woman. Xu Qi, a poet of the Southern Dynasties, wrote "Fresh red powder is more beautiful than plain flowers" ("Ode to the peach tree in front of the house as a gift"). The bright red and white petals of the peach blossoms in front of you are associated with the rouge and fragrant powder on the wife's face. , expressing the strong longing for the distant wife.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were many poems that used peach blossoms as a metaphor for beauty. For example: Li Bai's "Changgan Xing": "Self-pity for more than fifteen years, the color is red." Wang Jian's "Spring Song": "The girl of Qing Emperor is dyed with peach blossoms, and her makeup is red and still wet." Poets use peach blossoms as a metaphor for beautiful women. The description reproduces the young and beautiful image of the girl with youthful glow and rosy face.
She is as beautiful as a flower, young and beautiful, with a white and rosy face, as bright as a peach blossom, gorgeous and pleasing to the eye. Therefore, people often use "face like peach blossom" to describe a woman's beauty. Chen Ziliang, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Willow leaves come on the eyebrows and peach blossoms fall on the face, blushing" ("Xincheng Anle Palace"), Cui Hu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, "Human faces and peach blossoms complement each other red" ("Inscription on Nanzhuang, Capital City"), Tang Dynasty poet Li Poems such as "The dust is dim and the peach blossoms on the face are all red" and "Two Songs of a Spring Boudoir", as well as the Tang Dynasty poet Wei Zhuang's poems such as "The peach blossom face is still there, the willow eyebrows are often lowered", all start from the woman's face. , using crimson peach blossoms to set off the girl's rosy face, showing a healthy and beautiful image of a woman.
There is a poem "Peach Blossom Row" in "A Dream of Red Mansions" written by Cao Xueqin, a writer of the Qing Dynasty:
How can the bright rouge be similar?
The color of the flower is the color of human tears. .
If human tears are compared to peach blossoms,
Tears grow long and flowers flatter themselves.
Tears of joyful flowers dry easily,
When the tears dry, the flowers become haggard at the end of spring.
The whole poem uses flowers to personify people, and people use people to compare with flowers. The poet describes the long-flowing human tears as being more charming than flowers, the tears that dry up more easily than flowers that fade away, and the haggard people than haggard flowers. The loops are repeated, the perfect combination, the flowers and people are intertwined, and the image of a weak girl who is lonely, helpless and sentimental is portrayed. The peach blossom has become a symbolic portrayal of Lin Daiyu's purity and beauty but her fate.
Some ancient poems sing about peach blossoms, not for the sake of peach blossoms, but to express feelings. The Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hu's "Inscription on Nanzhuang of the Capital City" is the most famous:
Last year, in this gate,
the peach blossoms on the human face reflected each other's red.
I don’t know where the human face is,
The peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze.
According to Tang Dynasty poet Meng Qi's "Emotional Poetry", Cui Hu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, went to Beijing to take the Jinshi examination. On the day of Qingming Festival, he went to the south of the city alone and saw a village house surrounded by peach blossoms. , then he knocked on the door and asked for a drink. There was a young woman escorting Cui to the water. Her eyes met each other, showing deep affection. Cui Hu left and never visited again. On the Tomb-Sweeping Day of the next year, Cui Hu revisited his old place, but found that the scenery was still the same, the door was locked, and there was no one there. Cui Hu was so melancholy that he wrote this poem on his door.
This poem uses "human face" and "peach blossom" as running clues. Through the contrast between "last year" and "today", which are in the same place and the same scenery but with different people, the poet's two different experiences are combined. The infinite sadness caused by the encounter is expressed in a round and round way. The vivid description of "the human face and the peach blossoms complement each other" in the poem has become a famous line that people recite. In particular, the word "red" in the sentence describes how the rosy face of the girl in the past complemented the redness of the peach blossoms, making the poet still feel happy and happy after recalling it. The allusion of "human face peach blossom" was later quoted by many poets.
There are many poems praising love using peach blossom as the carrier. Let's first look at the second part of "Nine Poems on Bamboo Branches" by Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty:
The mountains are covered with red flowers,
The spring water of the Shu River beats the mountain flow.
The bonus is easy to fade like a man's will,
The flow of water is infinite like Nong's sorrow.
This poem uses peach blossoms to express sadness. The poem depicts the image of a peasant girl in love. Falling in love brought her happiness, but also brought sorrow. The peach blossoms all over the mountain are bright and eye-catching, but the peach blossoms in full bloom will eventually wither. The lover's heart is as short-lived and easy to wither as the peach blossoms. The lover's change of heart causes the girl to feel deep sadness.
Let’s look at the second part of the Tang Dynasty poet Yuan Zhen’s “Five Thoughts on Lisi”:
The mountain spring flows around the steps,
Thousands of trees and peach blossoms reflect the small building.
Reading Taoism without getting up,
Watching combing hair under the crystal curtain.
This poem was written by Yuan Zhen for his early lover Cui Yingying. The first two sentences describe the quiet environment when they met, and the last two sentences describe their sweet love life. "Ten Thousands of Peach Blossoms" are colorful and make pure love as mellow as wine and as sweet as honey.