Common allusions in poetry

1. Aihong?

Aihong is a metaphor for people who are sad, suffering and homeless.

"The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Hongyan": "The wild geese are flying, whining and wailing. The wise man Weibi said that I am working hard." The poem writes that envoys traveled in all directions and saw refugees gathering in the wild like wild geese. When the refugees are happy that the messenger has arrived, they all join in and express their feelings, like the wailing of wild geese. Later, the words "swan geese in the wild and mourning people everywhere" were used to refer to the displacement of the people.

Gong Zizhen's "Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai": In the middle of the night, Zhen suddenly mourns and mourns, and in September there is no sarong on the Huai River.

2. Qin and Jin

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin and Jin were engaged in marriage. Later, the marriage between the two surnames was called "the good thing between Qin and Jin".

The first fold of the second book of Wang Shifu's "The Romance of the West Chamber": At the expense of his family, he is willing to marry a hero and become the Qin and Jin Dynasties.

3. Sangzi

Sangzi refers to hometown.

"The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Xiaobian": "We must pay respect to the mulberry and catalpa trees in our hometown." It means that the mulberry trees and catalpa trees in our hometown were planted by our parents, and we must show respect to them. Later, people used it to refer to their hometown.

Mao Zedong·"Seven Wonders": Why do we need a mulberry land to bury our bones? There are green hills everywhere in life!

4. Cold food

Cold food, one or two days before Qingming Festival.

It is said that Jie Zitui of Jin Dynasty lived in seclusion in the mountains. Jin Wengong burned the mountains to force him to come out and become an official. Jie Zitui could not push out and was burned to death. In order to commemorate Jie Yutui, Duke Wen of Jin banned the raising of fire on the day of his death and only ate cold food.

Han Hong·"Cold Food": Flowers are flying everywhere in the spring city, and the east wind of Cold Food keeps the willows from slanting.

5. Picking Wei

Picking Wei means living in seclusion and hiding from the world.

At the end of the Yin Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou attacked Yin. Boyi and Shuqi, the sons of the king of Guzhu, thought that this was regicide by a minister, so they stopped his horse and admonished him. After the Yin Dynasty, the two people stopped eating Zhou millet and lived in seclusion in Shouyang Mountain, picking weeds and eating them, and eventually died of starvation. Later, he used this metaphor to live in seclusion and escape from the world.

Wang Ji·"Ambition": We care about each other but don't know each other, and we sing long songs to pick up the flowers.

6. Three Paths

Three Paths refers to a secluded life.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, after Jiang Xu, the governor of Yanzhou, lived in seclusion, he opened three paths under the bamboo in the yard and only interacted with Qiuzhong and Yangzhong. Later, Sanjing became the name for the hermit's residence.

Tao Yuanming·"Come Back and Come Back": The three paths are deserted, but the pines and chrysanthemums still remain.

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About allusions

Allusions originally referred to old systems and old rules, and were also the official names of those in charge of historical facts such as the ritual and music system in the Han Dynasty. A later common meaning refers to stories or legends about historical figures, regulations, etc. The name Allusion has a long history. It can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, "Book of the Later Han Dynasty." "Cang Zhuan of Dongping Xianwang": "I personally bow down to the supreme, pay tribute to my subordinates, give banquets every time, change the appearance of the banquet, worship personally in the middle palace, allusions have happened."

Allusions refer to the system and the Anecdotes. "Cihai" and "Ciyuan" establish two meanings for the word "allusion": First, the ancient meaning of the word allusion is somewhat equivalent to the "allusion" in modern Chinese, which refers to ancient regulations and systems, old events and practices. Of course, the allusions we are talking about today use the modern meaning of allusions. The modern meaning of allusion is explained in "Modern Chinese Dictionary" as "stories or phrases in ancient books quoted in poems". The interpretations of "Cihai" and "Ciyuan" are similar to this, saying that they are "ancient stories and words with provenance quoted in poems."

Reference: Allusions_Baidu Encyclopedia