Whenever peony is mentioned, everyone will think of its grace and magnificence, think of its vividness.
"Invite the spring breeze not to open early, and the crowd will float upstairs." A number of buds and immortals come out of the fire, a piece of strange fragrance from the sky" is delicate, "there is a good color in this city, the heavenly sect late hair race flowers" is also delicate... Seeing the two words peony, we are as if we see the beautiful women in the Palace of the Tang Dynasty, in short, they are very different from ordinary flowers.
And it is precisely because the peony is beautiful, beautiful like a splendid cloud, it also symbolizes the meaning of "rich", the kings of the past have a special love for the colorful peony, every time the peony blooms, they do not forget to go out to admire the peony.
Poetry praises the beauty of peonies, kings like peonies, but few people favor white peonies.
When everyone's eyes are biased to one side, the "alternative path" of a few people will naturally look different.
Lu Lun was one of the ten talents of the Tang Dynasty, who had never reached the first, had a bumpy life, read all the human feelings, and wrote a lot of works about the people's livelihood and suffering. Lu Lun's poetry angle is always very novel, for example, he can write a unique work in the same "peony" poem, everyone sings the beauty of peony, but he sings praises for white peony.
Pei gives the house white peony
Lu Lun
Chang'an Haogui cherished the spring residue and competed to play with the purple peony in the west of the street.
Don't have a jade plate to bear the cold, no one gets up to look at the middle of the moon.
Some poems are often mistaken or even lost in the course of time, and this is the case with this poem. In many sources, it does not have an author, but in some materials the author is marked as Lu Lun, so we simply regard the author as Lu Lun here.
This poem, Bai Peony, did not first write about the characteristics of the object image itself, but from the perspective of the rich and nobles of Chang'an, he described their "nature" with the three words of "Xi Chun Remnant".
Peonies bloom in late spring, when most of the other flowers have withered. For the beauty of spring, people are particularly cherished and lingering, and people naturally feel sorry for the departure of spring. In ancient poems, the meaning of "spring residue" is almost always written to express the characters' lament about the passage of time.
So what is the author here saying that the rich and nobles "cherish the spring and the remnants"? They cherish the spring, and in what way are they manifested? Chengshu gave a very good answer: compete to play the west purple peony on the street; the rich and nobles rush to play and appreciate the purple peony that is in full bloom, which is a scene description, which shows that the rich and noble are very "cherishing spring"; and the reason why they "cherish spring residue" is that they are afraid of not being able to appreciate such beautiful peony flowers, afraid that their play preferences cannot be satisfied, which is different from ordinary people's "cherishing spring" feelings.
The author portrays such a lively scene in the confession, which seems harmonious and pleasant, but in fact is full of irony for the dynastic magnates. And this meaning is more clear and clear when combined with the last two sentences to understand.
"Don't have a jade plate to reveal the cold, no one gets up to look at the middle of the moon"; suddenly jumped, we only wrote about the white peony in the turning sentence, and the author's layout is very special. The sentence compares the white peony to a "jade plate", which not only vividly reflects the atmosphere of the white peony's posture, but also cleverly portrays the beauty of the white peony charm. Li Bai called the moon "white jade disk", and Lu Lun here used the jade disk to describe the white peony, and then let the reader's eyes shine, and naturally linked the three to imagine, which is really beautiful.
But who expected such a beautiful white peony, no one paid attention to it, to appreciate, and left it out in the cold. Who is "nobody" talking about? Obviously, it is the "nobles" who like purple peony in the first two sentences, and the white peony cannot enter their "magic eyes" because it does not have a gorgeous appearance.
The author has never expressed his heart with words with strong emotional colors, but from such a gentle and concise narrative, the reader can see the worldliness and ugliness of those in power, and see the elegant discipline and dust soul of the white peony.
If we understand it a little deeper, we will also find that this truly noble white peony does not symbolize the author and those who are different and polluted like him? It can be seen that the more subtle the poem, the stronger the rhyme and the deeper the meaning.
With the unique and holy in the gorgeous, through this poem of Lu Lun, we understand the unique and beautiful white peony, read a poet with a noble soul, absorb a lot of spiritual food, like it, just these few reasons are enough.