-An appreciation of ancient poems about pomegranate flowers
Wang Chuanxue
Pomegranate flowers are a bright landscape in summer. Pomegranate has a long history in our country and is very popular among our people because of its beautiful appearance, sweet and sour taste, and even more because it is auspicious, symbolizing the kind of good life that people hope for, which is red-hot and fruitful. Pomegranate flowers are colorful, such as the color of fire is very popular, the Chinese people have always loved red, full of pomegranate flowers symbolize prosperity, good, red-hot days. Our people have long taken the pomegranate as the fruit of good luck. In the face of flowers and fruits and beautiful, red and lovely pomegranate, the literati poetic mood, have made poems and words, eulogy, for the pomegranate flower gives a lot of emotion, leaving a lot of pomegranate flower poems.
It is rumored that the pomegranate is introduced from the West to the Central Plains, "Museum", "Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, to get the An Tu Linan pomegranate to return, called An Pomegranate." "Sea pomegranate", on the other hand, was introduced from the East. During the Tang Dynasty, Empress Wu Zetian was particularly fond of pomegranates, so its cultivation immediately entered a period of prosperity, once appeared in Chang'an, "pomegranate flowers all over the suburbs," the grand situation. When Yang Guifei in Huaqing Palace, but also especially like pomegranate flowers, hand in the seven hallowed hall around, planted a lot of pomegranate trees, in order to watch the pomegranate flowers of the beauty of the colorful, so there is a "Guifei flower pomegranate" of the name of the beauty.
The Tang Dynasty poet Yu Lan "thousand leaves of pomegranate flowers" poem Yun:
A flower blooms a thousand leaves red, open and not through the spring wind.
If we teach to move in the fragrant lady's room, we will be the same as the servant's colorful state.
The poem writes about the magnificent scene when the pomegranate flowers bloom. The last line compares the pomegranate flower's delicate state with the beauty in the perfumed lady's chamber, and writes out the pomegranate flower's delicate state. "The pomegranate flower is also compared to the pining beauty in the boudoir by the poet of the Southern Dynasty, Wei Tantan, who wrote, "There is no way to send the pomegranate flower, but I miss the empty boudoir in spring. Visible pomegranate at that time is absolutely extraordinary, it is a beautiful woman and the symbol of pure love.
Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a song "Wing neighboring women east window pomegranate", there is a "flower face to face" of the beauty:
Lu women under the window, pomegranate is rare in the world.
The coral is reflected in the green water, not enough to compare the glory.
The fragrance of the pomegranate is in the wind, and the birds return at sunset.
I would like to be a branch of the south-eastern branch.
I can't help but look at the golden door.
"Under the east window of the Lu girl, the pomegranate is rare in the world". Outside the east window of the Shandong maiden, there is a rare sea pomegranate in the world. Under the XiSha window, the Lu girl and the sea pomegranate appeared at the same time. One is full of life, emotionally beautiful and charming girl, one is the first blossom, brightly colored plants, this "flower face to face" scenario, constituting the most beautiful part of this pomegranate East Window scroll. "Rare" refers to both the pomegranate, but also refers to the Lu woman, in the poet's mind, they are both rare things in the world.
"Coral reflects the green water, not enough to compare the glory". The reason why the pomegranate is a rare thing in the world is that it has a bright and colorful flower like coral reflecting the green water, it has a glory that cannot be compared with anything, and it has an intoxicating fragrance emanating from the wind. Similarly, these two lines contain praise for the Lu woman. The red flowers and green water, reflecting each other, constitute the basic tone of this painting, and fully reflect the beauty of the colors of this painting.
"The fragrance is sent out with the wind, and good birds return at sunset". The first two sentences praise the color of pomegranate flowers, these two sentences highlight the fragrance of pomegranate flowers. The red flowers and clear fragrance, further illustrating the sea pomegranate of the world's rare. "I would like to be a branch of the south-eastern branch, and lift it low to brush my robe". Out of love for the pomegranate, especially out of love for the Lu woman. The poet would like to turn himself into a pomegranate branch to the southeast, to brush the Lu woman's clothes. It can be seen that this love is very strong, this infatuation is very strong!
Unfortunately, "there is no way to *** climb and fold, leading to look at the golden door." When the poet to be the southeast branch of the dream dashed, he would like to go over to the Lu women with *** with the pomegranate branches, but "men and women are not close" creed prevented him, the two sides do not know each other, but also have never had a word of this fact, and extinguished his heart that a fire of infatuation, the two are strangers to each other, poets The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night.
In the absence of any reason, the poet can only stretch his neck and look at the near but seems to be far away from the golden case and melancholy, and sadness. The last two lines of the poem are the poet's inner monologue, a natural outpouring of emotion, which expresses the poet's emotion is strong and sincere, but at the same time is subtle and delicate.
The poem "Pomegranate Flower" by the poet Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty expresses a sense of despondency:
The pomegranate flower in May shines brightly in my eyes, and I can see my son's newborn son among the branches.
Poorly, there are no carriages or horses here, and the moss is upside down.
In May, the pomegranate flowers bloomed, red like fire, dazzling, vaguely visible pomegranate knot in the branches. The first thing I'd like to say is that I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm sure I'll be able to do it. The big red pomegranate flowers in the people's indifference to the cold, a hundred helplessly drifted down on the mossy ground
The first sentence of the word "Ming" not only points out the May pomegranate flowers are very dazzling, the color of the flowers depicted, but also expresses the poet's own talent, although such as blooming pomegranate flowers as brilliant, but also can only be as ordinary as the moss, but also to the public. At the same time, it also expresses that although the poet's own talent is as brilliant as the blooming pomegranate flower, he can only mingle with ordinary people like moss. The whole poem implicitly expresses the poet's loss of talent and cold heart.
The Tang poet Kong Shaoan's "Pomegranate at the Banquet" is a metaphor for the pomegranate, which is a different kind of emotion:
It's a pity that the tree in the court has moved its roots to the city of Han.
It is a pity that the tree in the garden has moved its roots to the city of Han.
The Old Book of Tang - Literary Garden records that once Kong Shaoan feasted at the banquet of the Tang Emperor Li Yuan, who ordered Kong Shaoan to make a poem in response to the imperial decree under the title of "pomegranate", and the poem was completed, that is, the poem. The poet, with his rich imagination, attributed the blooming of the pomegranate in midsummer to the fact that the pomegranate spread to the Central Plains relatively late, and therefore missed the opportunity to compete with other plants to open in spring. Kong Yuan was a royal historian of the Sui Dynasty, but returned to Tang a little later, and was only awarded the title of Nei Shi Shi Ren, an official of the fifth rank. Therefore, the poet used the pomegranate as a metaphor to express his feelings of "late arrival, the blossom is not as good as spring". On the one hand, it expresses the dissatisfaction of the Tang Emperor Li Yuan, and on the other hand, it shows the old poet's confidence in his own talent, only "late".
The Tang poet Bai Juyi's Title Mountain Pomegranate Flower praises the quality of the pomegranate flower:
A clump of a thousand pressed appendages, Jian broken red raw silk, but as a group.
The wind is curling up the waist and the fragrance is not exhausted, the dew is canceled makeup face tears new dry.
The Nymphaea is a rose with thorns, and the Nymphaea is not easy to play with.
I have been trying to find this flower under the eaves of the house, so that it can be plucked by others.
This poem was written in Jiangzhou. The first two lines are that, outside the balustrade bloomed a series of pomegranate flowers bloomed very prosperous, millions of red flowers like cut red silk clusters into a ball, by the wind swaying like a dance waist swinging, fragrant; night dew wet the beautiful flowers, the sun and dew, such as the beauty of the face of the new dry tear marks. The last two lines is that, although the rose is beautiful but with thorns people are lazy to climb and fold, although the lotus is beautiful but growing in the mud and water, it is difficult for people to enjoy. They are not as beautiful as the pomegranate flowers growing under the eaves of the house, allowing people to pick and let people enjoy watching. The poem praises the beauty of pomegranate flowers, and extols the excellent qualities of pomegranate flowers, which are approachable and popular. The whole poem is novel in comparison, well-conceived, beautifully worded, and in an excellent mood.
Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin's Pomegranate, praising flowers and remembering people, sentimental:
Pomegranate branches graceful pomegranate fruit, pomegranate film light bright pomegranate seeds fresh.
The pomegranate tree is the envy of the world, and its cheeks are red for a thousand years.
Li Shangyin's "Pomegranate" is a love poem, but to whom did he write it? Li Shangyin also mentioned pomegranates in his untitled second song: "It was once a lonesome golden embers dark, no news of pomegranate red. The pomegranate is only tied to the bank of the poplar, where the southwest let the good wind." According to the meaning of the poem, it is not difficult to see that this poem is written to his first love, and this love is a failure, so that he is engraved in his heart. The poem "Pomegranate Branch Ena Pomegranate Fruit Prosperity", which sings of the pomegranate flower's delicacy, praises the pomegranate fruit's plumpness and sweetness, and compares the pomegranate fruit's "redness" with the peach's redness, implying that the woman he loves is more beautiful and noble than the peach in the Queen Mother's yaochihi! It can be seen how much the poet adores her, how nostalgic. But she is noble and delicate can't be as red as the Queen Mother's peaches for "a thousand years", which shows how much he mourns and regrets the passing of the red face! This poem was written by the poet to all the women who had been brilliant in his life, this "pomegranate" is both an elegy for life and a eulogy for love!
The first two lines of this poem extol the purity and beauty of the pomegranate, read the spring breeze, but the latter is followed by a sigh of regret on the earth that the red face is easy to die. Like a girl in white, even if there is a little joy, but also just a flower smile, even if the color is like peach and plum, but also difficult to beat the wind and rain sword. It's easy to grow old, and it's hard to keep old dreams alive. "A thousand years of blue peach cheeks," said the poet's dream and desire.
All the beautiful things in the world are transient, only the immortal poetry of the poet, only deep in the heart of the sincerity and good feelings can really "peach red cheeks for a thousand years"!
"A little bit of red on the green branches". In classical poetry, more than agate, amber, jade, red dress, etc. to compare the pomegranate flower "red", but it is difficult to fully its beauty. Therefore, poets used "fire" as a metaphor for pomegranate flowers. In the many "fire" metaphor pomegranate poetry, there are two extremely vivid image, delicate and touching.
First, look at the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "mountain pomegranate":
Like a volcano pomegranate reflecting the small mountains, busy in the thin can be colorful in the leisure.
A good woman on the jade hairpin, only suspected of burning the green cloud maid.
The durian flower is like fire, colorful as Xia, the mountain girl picked to insert in the jade hairpin, enough beauty. Looking at the red flowers, but the poet is worried about the girl's sideburns burned it. This illusion, really rendered the "fire" imminent! Du Mu's this mountain pomegranate, seize the pomegranate's most striking red color to describe, like fire like red pomegranate, the whole mountain are reflected red, beauty pick a stick in the jade hairpin, let people think it is a fire burning hair it. In the flourishing flowers, a thin slice of petal colorful, and leisurely beauty reflected red. The flowers are beautiful, people are more beautiful, so that people who appreciate the beauty of the scenery back to the past.
Then look at the Yuan Dynasty poet Zhang Hongfan's "Wing Pomegranate":
Scarlet blood who taught the dyeing of the reddish-red capsule, the green clouds in the pile of moist and fragrant.
The bees mistook the fire on the branch and drove the smoky wind over the short wall.
The green leaves and the fragrance of the flowers attracted the bees to come to collect nectar, but when they saw the scarlet flowers, they mistook them for flames and hurriedly fled on the wind. The whole poem through the hyperbole, the flowers of the red, the bee's fear of writing alive, read can not help but make people smile.
Su Shi, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, also wrote about the pomegranate blossoms like fire:
The green acacia and tall willows are swallowing the new cicada, and the lavender wind is entering the string. Under the blue window, the water sinks into the smoke, and the sound of chess startles the daytime sleepers. The slightest rain, the small lotus turn, pomegranate blossoms want to be. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a jade pot and make it clear, and the beads of agate are broken but rounded.
This song is about the life of a lady's chamber in early summer, which is elegant, fresh and full of life interest.
The first part of the song is about a young girl in early summer. "Green acacia high willow pharyngeal new cicadas", are characterized by the early summer scenery: leafy acacia trees, tall willows, and the depths of the green new cicadas chirping at first break, a cool and quiet courtyard environment. "The smoky wind is entering the strings" is again a characteristic of the early summer climate. The smoky wind is the warm south wind. Here it is said that the song of "South Wind" will start to be sung into the strings again, as a metaphor for the beginning of the south wind. As the scenery written above is resorted to the sense of sight (green acacia, tall willow), hearing (swallowing new cicadas) and touch (smoky wind) respectively, the arrival of early summer has a three-dimensional sense, distinct and true. "The water under the blue window sinks into the smoke, and the sound of chess startles the daytime sleep", into the interior description. The incense burner under the blue gauze window is filled with the curling smoke of incense (i.e., Shui Shen). The white smoke against the blue gauze, not only has the beauty of the image, and there is a fragrance can be smelled, seemingly quiet and elegant. At this time, the sound of the chess pieces on the scales woke up the heroine who was taking a nap. The sound of chess emphasizes the quietness of the environment. The sound of chess can "startle" her daytime sleep, and the reader can imagine that in such a quiet environment, she has probably already slept enough, so the sound of ding ding's falling pieces will wake her up. Wake up do not feel the rest of the weariness has not disappeared, the heart is not unhappy, can be seen in the early summer and the weather of the pleasant.
The next piece of writing this young girl dream after waking up, enjoy and enjoy the natural scenery of early summer. The second sentence of the break beat, write to get water leaf surface, agar beads broken and round, more fresh and lovely. "The light rain, small lotus turn, pomegranate blossoms want to burn", is another garden pool summer scenery. Small lotus is growing, small and delicate, a light rain in the past, the light wind to turn the lotus leaves; pomegranate flower color is bright red, washed by the rain, it is red like a flame. This vitality, this color, probably make the girl intoxicated, so there is another vivid scene: "jade pot delicate hands make clear spring, agar beads broken but round." The heroine simply take the beautiful porcelain basin to the edge of the pool to play with water. The water splashes on the lotus leaves, as round and bright as pearls. It can be imagined that at this moment, the mood of the young girl is just like the splash of water, joy, excitement, can not hold themselves.
The whole word is written from the opposite side of the technique, the upper part of the quiet beauty, and from the auditory start, to the sound of the environment of the silence; the lower part of the dynamic beauty, but from the visual pen, with a silent painting to show the vitality of nature. The dynamic description of the word is very vivid, not to mention the "chess sound alarm day sleep", "jade pot delicate hands make clear spring" character activities, is the scenery also presents a certain sense of movement. Small lotus for the rain and turn, you can imagine its swaying posture in the wind. Pomegranate is a static object, but the use of the word "burning" makes it seem to move. These dynamic descriptions undoubtedly play a useful role in enlivening the atmosphere and enriching the picture. This word contains feelings in the scene, and the many scenes and objects are wefted with feelings, so it is scattered but not chaotic, giving people a sense of wholeness. The author is good at grasping the subtle psychological feelings and comparing the subtle changes of the objective environment in an intangible way, and through the description of scenery and environment, he forms a lively and natural garden, and implies the simplicity and innocence of the heroine as well as her love for nature and life. The image of the young girl in the words is very different from the general female image of languid and tired, lonely and sorrowful in the words of love, full of beautiful and fresh vitality and youthfulness, which gives people a refreshing feeling. Works of lively and healthy image of young girls, and the early summer season is full of vitality of the scenery, the environment, constitutes a harmonious, clear, dynamic mood, people linger.
"Thick green ten thousand branches of red a little, moving spring color do not have to be more." (Song? Wang Anshi "Wing pomegranate flowers"), this is Wang Anshi Wing tree full of only one flower pomegranate flower famous couplet. In the first line, "a little bit of red" refers to a single pomegranate flower, and in the second line, "spring color" refers to the scenery. With a red flower on the green background, the scene becomes lively and colorful. Pomegranate flowers of the beautiful, precious, not because of its thousands of purple and red, enchanting color, even if the flower color is rare, but "a little red among the green bushes", since it will receive "fewer than many" effect.
In the poems depicting pomegranate flowers, poets play imagination, using a variety of artistic techniques, written in a vivid image.
First of all, look at the Tang Dynasty poet Shi Shuangwu's "mountain pomegranate flowers":
Dark rouge broken cut red, coincidentally saved together is the God of heaven.
I can't say that there is nothing to compare it with, but it's a very beautiful pomegranate in the spring stage.
The poet imagines the pomegranate flower as a dark-colored rouge saved by the God of Heaven, which is vivid and apt. Then he further compares the pomegranate flower to the beautiful Xi Shi in the spring stage, showing the beautiful charm of the pomegranate flower!
And then look at the Song Dynasty poet Wang Yucheng's Pomegranate Flower
The Queen Mother's court personally saw planted, Zhang Qian stole down to the sky.
The pomegranate blossom was planted in the court of the king's mother, and Zhang Qian stole it from the sky.
The poet praises the pomegranate flower, which was planted by the Queen Mother herself in the court of heaven, and was stolen by Zhang Qian from heaven to earth. The last two lines compare the pomegranate flower to a pinch of red needle and thread left by a skillful woman, which can't be ironed with an iron. The poem is fantastically imaginative and extremely beautiful