The leaves are dim and the flowers are withered, which describes the bleak atmosphere and environment or describes people entering old age.
Source: nostalgic spring, full of leaves and flowers.
"An old root clings to the dead stem of a pool full of dark leaves and flowers, and the roof beams of thousands of families in the north have suffered from the wind and snow, gently holding a small empty bird's nest." Use personification rhetoric. Personize platycodon grandiflorum and roof beam respectively.
This sentence outlines two bleak and hopeful scenes in early spring. Although platycodon grandiflorum is defeated, the old roots are still there, and it can still be green after the spring; Although the nest is empty, the swallows will come back in spring. Expressed "sincere hopes and prayers" for the arrival of spring.
Extended information Spring must be like this: the withered stems with dark leaves and flowers are clinging to an old root, and the roof beams of thousands of families in the north have suffered from wind, frost, snow and rain, gently holding an empty bird's nest. Then, suddenly, one day, peach blossoms captured all the mountain villages, and willow trees took control of the royal imperial ditch and the folk river head-spring is like a clear-cut Julian Waghann, beautiful because of long-term pious expectations and prayers.
As for the name of spring, there must have been such a story: before the Book of Songs, before the Book of History, before the creation of Cang Xie, a lamb suddenly felt juicy when eating grass, and a child suddenly felt soaring when flying a kite;
A pair of legs suffering from gout suddenly felt comfortable, and Qian Qian's dancing hands on the banks of streams and ponds suddenly felt the blood of water ... When they were surprised to tell each other, they decided to pout their mouths into the shape of whistling, and named this season "spring" with a sweet whisper.