"The Peach Blossoms Reflect Each Other's Red"is from "Question to the South Village of the Capital City" by Cui Gu of the Tang Dynasty.
The full poem is as follows:
Title to the South Village of the Capital City
Tang Dynasty Cui Gu
Last year, today, at this gate, the peaches of immortality reflect each other.
I don't know where the faces of the people have gone, but the peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze.
The explanation of the whole poem is as follows:
Last spring, in this very door, the girl's face was a reflection of the bright peach blossoms.
Today, I come here again, but I don't know where the girl has gone, only the peach blossoms are still there, smiling and blossoming in the spring wind.
Lyrics
Du: the capital of the country, referring to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
Human Face: refers to the face of the girl. In the third sentence, "human face" refers to the girl.
I don't know: I don't know what is going on, but I don't know what is going on.
The first line of the second sentence is about the girl's face, and the second line is about the girl's face.
Smile: to describe the peach blossom in full bloom.
Appreciation
The whole poem consists of four lines, which contain two scenes, one before and one after, which are identical and mirror each other.
The first scene: looking for spring and encountering color - "Last year today in this door, the face of the peach blossoms reflect each other red." The poet captures the most beautiful and touching scene in the whole process of "searching for spring and encountering beauty". "Peach blossom faces reflect each other red", not only for the colorful as peach blossom "face" set a beautiful background, set off the young girl's radiant face, but also implicitly expressed the poet's attention to God, love shakes the intention to take the situation, and the two sides of the pulse of love, not yet spoken words of the scene.
The second scene: the search is not met. Still the season of spring, flowers, or flowers and trees, peach trees, the portal, however, so that all the colorful "human face" but do not know where to go, leaving only a tree in front of the door of the peach blossom is still in the spring breeze in the condensation of love and smile. Peach blossom in the spring breeze smiling association, from the "face of the peach blossom red" to get. Last year today, stand under the peach tree, the unexpected girl, I think it must be staring at the smile, the pulse of love; and now, the face is gone, still smiling peach blossom can only lead to the beautiful memories of the past and the good times are not always the feeling. The word "still" contains a lot of frustration.
The whole poem is actually using "human face" and "peach blossom" as the threads through "last year" and "today". Through the "last year" and "today" at the same time the same place and the same scene but "people are different" reflection contrast, the poet because of these two different encounters and the feelings arising from the loop back and forth, the twists and turns of the full expression of the poet. Contrast plays a very important role in this poem. Because it is written in the memory of the beautiful things that have been lost, so the memories are particularly precious, beautiful, full of feelings, which is why there is "the face of the peach blossoms reflecting the red" of the divine depiction; because there is such a beautiful memory, it is particularly feel the loss of the beautiful things of the disappointment, and thus there is "the face of the people do not know where to go, the peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze". The peach blossom still smiles in the spring breeze".
Despite the fact that the poem has a certain melodrama, a legendary "skill", and even drama, it is not a small narrative poem, but a lyrical poem. The "skill" may have contributed to its wide circulation, but its typical significance lies in the fact that it expresses a certain kind of life experience, not in the fact that it recounts a story of interest. It is an illustration of a universal experience of life: encountering something beautiful by chance, by accident, and when one goes after it intentionally, one can never get it back. This is perhaps one of the reasons why the poem has maintained its enduring artistic vitality.
The poems "Seeking Spring and Encountering Beauty" and "Seeking Again and Not Encountering" could have been written as narrative poems. The fact that the author did not write them in this way shows that the Tang people were more accustomed to feeling the affairs of life with the eyes and feelings of a lyric poet.
About the Author
Cui Gu was a poet of the Tang Dynasty. His name is Yin Gong, and he was a native of Boling (present-day Dingzhou City, Hebei Province) in the Tang Dynasty. In 796 A.D. (the twelfth year of Zhenyuan), he was enrolled in the first rank (jinshi and jinshi) of the Tang Dynasty. In 829 A.D. (the third year of the Daho era), he became the governor of Jingzhao, and in the same year, he became the imperial historian and minister of the Lingnan Province. In the same year, he became the Imperial Historian and Minister of the Lingnan Province. His poems were refined and elegant, and his language was extremely fresh. Six poems exist in All Tang Poetry, all of which are masterpieces, especially the most widely circulated and popular, with eye ****appreciation of the "Question on the South Village of the Capital City". The poem to "the face of peach blossoms, things are not the same" such a seemingly simple life experience out of the millions of people seem to have had the *** with the experience of life, for the poet has won the immortal name of the poem.