It means just admiring being able to join hands with the old like a mandarin duck and stay with them for life. As long as you can do this, even if you can be a fairy in the sky.
there's the next sentence, that is, it's really admirable to be a lovebird, but I can't see you after two trips.
from —— The Ancient Meaning of Chang 'an by Lu Zhaolin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
original: I don't know each other when I meet you in front of the building, but I know you when I meet you? Excuse me, I blew a flute to Ziyan, and I once learned to dance for a long time.
I'd rather be a mandarin duck than a fairy. It's really enviable to compare the eyes with the mandarin ducks, but can't you see them?
I hate embroidering Lonely Luan on my forehead, so that I can get the curtain to post Shuang Yan. Double swallows fly around the painted beams, and the flowers are covered with tulips.
translation: The beautiful woman upstairs can face each other but hardly know each other, even if she meets on the road, it is difficult to get to know her. I learned from others that she was as beautiful as a fairy, had learned to sing and dance, and spent her youth in a noble family. If we can form a beautiful marriage with her, like a pair of harmonious flounders, who is still afraid of death, and only wants to be a pair of mandarin ducks and not envy the gods.
The flounder and mandarin duck that come and go together are really enviable. Haven't you seen them? I hate embroidering a lonely phoenix bird on the curtain, so I take it down and put on a curtain embroidered with two swallows. Shuang Yan carved beams and Qi Fei around the painted buildings, and Luo Wei Cui was scented with tulips.
Extended information:
1. Creation background
The specific creation date of this poem is unknown. Mr. Wen Yiduo said that the palace poems in the Southern Dynasties were not a blank, but a stain. Anemic and deformed palace life gave birth to anemic and deformed poems, and the two influenced each other, so the whole society was shrouded in splendor.
Therefore, under the influence of the poetic style of "everyone is lascivious in the corner of his eye, and everyone is pregnant with a ghost in his heart", everyone's mind has been poisoned from the emperor's ministers to the common people. In ancient China, the next emperor was the representative of the gods, and it was he and his ministers who judged the previous dynasties.
after the establishment of the Tang dynasty, the new rulers and ministers summed up the lessons of the demise of the southern dynasties, one of which was indulging in the sound of national subjugation, which was reasonable. The extremes meet, and it has fallen to the end, which is the beginning of revitalization. Therefore, Lu Zhaolin created a voice belonging to the Tang Dynasty-The Ancient Meaning of Chang 'an.
2. Author's brief introduction
Lu Zhaolin (about 635 ~ 68), a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Fanyang, Youzhou (now Beijing), and was one of the "four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty". He was appointed as the official of Li Yuanyu, the king of Deng, and then transferred to a new captain. After being trapped by wind arthralgia, he resigned and lived in Taibai Mountain. Later, I couldn't stand the torture of the disease and died by throwing myself into the water.
He was frustrated all his life. Because of Deng Wang's rebellion against Wu Zetian, he was sent to prison by the collective punishment. After he got out of prison, he was ill and had a very hard life. He often begged for medicine and money for a living, so his poems were full of bitter and angry words. His works had a certain influence on poetry creation at that time.
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