Meaning: a metaphor for the beauty of a young girl, also used to describe the situation when a man and a woman meet and fall in love, and then separate, and the man reminisces about the past.
Pinyin: rén miàn táo huā
From: Cui Gu's Title to the South Village of the Capital City
Full text: "Last year, today at this gate, the peaches of the human face reflected each other. I don't know where to go, but the peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze
Explanation: Last year, when I traveled to Chang'an on the outskirts of Nanzhuang during the Ching Ming Festival, I went to the door of a farmer's house where the peach blossoms were in full bloom, and a beautiful girl came out to receive him warmly, leaving an unforgettable impression on each other. The next year, the Qingming Festival to come back, the door is closed, the girl does not know where, only the peach blossom is still in full bloom with the spring breeze.
Expanded:
Peach Blossom in the Face: During the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar who applied for the examination in the capital city, and once he went to the southern suburb of the city to play around, he saw a hut which was very nice, and found an excuse to go in to have a look. He didn't expect to see a beautiful girl in the house.
The next year, he returned to the house on the Qingming Festival, but saw the door locked, people have not known where to move, so he wrote a poem: "Last year today this door, the face of the peach blossoms reflecting the red, the face of the people do not know where to go? Peach blossoms still smile in spring." And then went back.?
After a few days, he went back to the place, and this time the door was not only unlocked, but he also saw the girl's father, who told him sadly, "My daughter got lovesick because of the poem he wrote, and she didn't expect to die because of it." After hearing this, he was so sad that he couldn't help hugging the girl and crying, but he didn't realize that the girl woke up at that time, and it turned out that she just fainted. Soon after, the body gradually healed the girl and the scholar married. Later generations took the poem as a metaphor for the beauty of a young girl, and used it to describe her as a peach blossom.
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