Tonight the Winter Olympics are over, how to express the meaning of parting and reluctance in a way with a unique Chinese cultural charm? The director team found a subtle, aesthetic and freehand way, that is, "folding willows to send affection".
There are descriptions of various trees in Tang poems, but the most written of them is probably the willow tree. In addition to a large number of Wing Liu works, only the songs sung everywhere are "Willow Branch Words", "Willow Branch Words", "Folding Willow", etc., even the Tang Dynasty's most widely circulated "Weicheng Song", there are also descriptions of willow trees.
It is no accident that Tang Dynasty poets had a special love for Liu. Tang inherited Han customs, when sending off relatives and friends, he liked to fold wicker and give it to people, in order to send lovesickness and resentment, so the ancient song flute sound "Folding Willow" still had Wang Zhizhuo in the early Tang Dynasty, "Qiang Flute Why Should I Complain About Yang Willow", Li Bai "Smell the folded willow in this nocturne, who can't afford the old garden". Both refer to "folding willows". The reason why the Tang people like to fold willows to give people away is two reasons: first, willow and stay as a harmonic sound, which means to retain, nostalgia and even lovesickness; second, the adaptability and vitality of willow trees are strong, and they can survive whenever they are inserted, "unintentionally insert willows into the shade", and have a good wish to grow like willow trees no matter where they go. In addition, the willow branches are hanging low, easy to fold, and the willow branches flutter with the wind, and seem to have the meaning of lingering pity and unbearable leaving, all of which have boosted the custom of folding willows when the Tang people send them away, no wonder Liu Yuxi once sighed: "Chang'an is strange on the infinite tree, only the weeping Yang is parting." "The peach and plum in the city are exhausted, and it is like the time when the yang is infinite."
Because of this, in the eyes of the Tang people, willow is a sentient thing. Many poets like to take the willow as the theme, borrow the willow to play, write love with the willow, and support the willow to speak, so the famous and wonderful sentences of the willow are endless. He Zhizhang", "Wing Liu": "I don't know who cut the fine leaves?" February spring breeze is like scissors. "Imagination is wonderful, interesting, and ingenious. In short, the Tang Dynasty had many good poems written about willows, not only interesting, but also in friendship. (Sun Qin'an)