The mainland is the country of poetry, and the Book of Poetry is the earliest collection of poetry on the mainland, and it is a wonderful flower in the history of Chinese literature. With its vivid artistic expressions and beautiful text images, the Book of Poetry depicts the vivid life scenes and pictures of the ancients, and has become a classic literary work known to women and children, household names and enduring in China.
Among them, the sixth article in the book of poetry, "Peach Dream", is a popular poem, and the poem "Peach Dream, Burning its Glory" is still a famous sentence often used by people.
"Peach Dream" is a poem congratulating a woman on her marriage, which is also known as a marriage poem; it can also be considered a poem in which the bride is about to get married, and the elderly women of the mother's family give the bride psychological counseling and tell her some common sense of married life. The original poem is as follows:
The peach is dying, scorching its glory.
The son of Yu Gui, it is advisable to his room.
Peach of death, there is a rudder in fact.
The son of Yu Gui, yi qi family room.
The peach of death, its leaves.
The son of Yu Gui, it is appropriate for his family.
This poem "Tao Yao" can be regarded as the earliest poem in the history of Chinese aesthetics about defining the external beauty and inner beauty of the characters. The poem consists of three chapters, four verses each, for a total of twelve sentences. Each chapter begins with "Peach Of Dreams", with poetic progression and repeated chants, thus creating the artistic effect of singing three sighs.
The first chapter opens with two sentences, "The Peach Dreams, Burns its Glory", and the poet rises with the delicacy and color of the peach blossoms, which bloom in the spring, and the delicate pink peach blossoms are particularly eye-catching and eye-catching in the bright spring light. When people greet the gentle spring breeze and come to the place where the peach blossoms bloom, they see the peach blossoms, a tree, and a delicate peach blossom in full bloom, which is simply an ultimate visual experience.
The poet uses the phrase "the peach dreams, scorches its brilliance" to describe the delicate appearance of the peach blossom when it is in full bloom, which is really exquisite and beautiful. This method of Bixing is also to borrow things to metaphorize people, using blooming peach blossoms to compare the beautiful appearance of women, with both form and god, which is very appropriate. The delicate peach blossom has also become synonymous with describing the appearance of women, such as "face like peach blossom", "human face peach blossom" and other words are derived from this.
Moreover, "the peach dreams, scorches its glory", that is, the bright peach blossom metaphor for the beautiful bride who has been dressed up and dressed, does have a charm of "the peach blossoms on the face of the person are red". In "Peach Dream", the poet transforms the meaning into an image, and transforms the description of the scenery into a special technique for expressing thoughts and feelings, writing both scenes and people, and skillfully integrating love and scenery nature, setting off a cheerful and warm wedding atmosphere.
To describe a woman's appearance with the delicacy of a peach blossom is to emphasize the external beauty of a woman. The woman's appearance is like a peach blossom in full bloom in spring, giving people a bright feeling. Since ancient times, people have never been stingy about women's beauty, and "peach death, burning its glory" is the most intuitive and sincere artistic portrayal.
Next, "the son of Yu Gui, it is appropriate for his room." The implication is that when a woman gets married, she must be a virtuous wife after marriage, start a family with her husband, help her husband, and have the virtue of living in harmony with her husband's parents. This is a woman's sincere teaching to the woman by the elders of the family before she gets married, and it can also be seen as an education for the woman's premarital knowledge.
The opening sentence of the second chapter, "Peach of Death, There is a Truth", is poetically cyclical. At this time, the poet no longer describes the peach blossoms, but focuses on the fruits of the peach trees, the fruitful scene of the peach trees, the joyful scene of ripening, and the joyful and peaceful atmosphere of the harvest.
Round and large peaches hang from the branches, which is the external beauty of the peach tree, and thus the excitement is to the woman: the son of the return, the home of the family. When it was time to marry, the elders of the family preached in earnest to the woman who was about to marry, and from this teaching we could see how much they hoped that the woman would become a virtuous wife after marrying her husband's family.
The poet uses "Peach of Death, There is a Truth" as a progressive Bixing. "Arama" clearly describes the multiplicity of peaches according to the growth law of the peach tree that flowers first and then bears fruit, but in fact implies good wishes for the bride to have more children after marriage. The ancients said that there are many children and many blessings, and the poet borrowed the image of the peach tree's abundant fruit to express his heartfelt wishes, which is not only an allegory of the scene, but also a touch of the scene.
The opening sentence of the third chapter, "The peach dies, its leaves are full of leaves", and only when the peach tree is leafy can you see that this is a peach tree that thrives, branches and fruits.
The next "son in return, suitable for his family" to the effect that after the bride married into her husband's family, he and the groom worked together to build a home, and a happy and beautiful life began. In ancient times, it was called "Yu Gui" for a woman to marry, which means that in addition to being beautiful, a woman must have the virtue of making the family harmonious.
The poet compares itself to "the peach dies, and its leaves are flourishing", which is clearly written about the leafy branches of the peach tree, but in fact it implies that the peach tree is strong and the roots are deep and leafy, which symbolizes the bride's good luck after marriage and the beautiful expectation that the husband's family business will prosper, so the image of the lush peach leaves is also easy to make people think of the development of the family business.
Overall, the poet takes the peach tree as the overall image, takes the flowers, fruits, and leaves as the local imagery, writes from the flower to the fruit, from the result to the leafy, and the metaphorical content is gradually unfolded, from the image of the bride like a peach blossom to the mother image of the many noble children, from the mother image to the image of the thrifty housewife.
This description is not only in line with the natural law of the growth of peach trees, but also in line with the trajectory of the bride's life after marriage, the poetry is natural, the layers are progressive, the reading is natural and smooth, and there is no trace of carving and piling.
At this point, the theme of this poem is also very clear: the poem "Peach Of Death", singing three sighs at once, looping back and forth; the trio of "Son of Yu Gui", making the main theme of the poem "Peach Dream" more suddenly clear, thus depicting a peaceful and pleasant scene of a female eldest woman marrying.
Through the external beauty of peach blossoms and peach leaves, the poet skillfully combines with "Yiqi Room", "Yiqi Family Room" and "Yiqi Family" to express people's beautiful yearning for family members to get along harmoniously, live in peace and be happy.
According to the poetic imagery, the peach blossom metaphor points out that the bride who marries, then the "suitable room" should be to make the relationship between husband and wife and beauty. Marriage is a major event in life, since ancient times, and the ancient emphasis on weddings is especially better than today's people, so it is normal to put the status of newlyweds in the forefront.
In addition, "Peach Dream" is also a poem that blesses marriage and family harmony. The poet wishes the bride a happy life after marriage, and the first thing should be husband and wife and beauty, so the "Yiqi Room" in the first chapter and the "Yiqi Family" in the second chapter are naturally to make their families harmonious and harmonious, and the couple is beautiful, because the peach is the fruit of the "peach of the peach", which symbolizes the birth of the child.
This means that raising children has become the top priority of the bride's married life, in which case the relationship between husband and wife can only take a back seat, and the child has become the top priority of the family, which is actually in line with human nature.
As for the third chapter of "Suitable for his family", because the bride who married has long become a housewife, she needs to take care of it inside and out, so it is said that her whole family is harmonious and happy, and the flourishing of peach leaves implies that the tree has deep roots, symbolizing the prosperity of the family, and the woman's marriage to the husband's family brings good luck and blessings. Although this is a subjective consciousness with some superstitious overtones, from the perspective of marriage, wishing the bride happiness and prosperity after marriage is also in line with good customs.
The poem "Peach Dream" finally raises the beautiful virtue of women to the height of the family, which is another important reason for the longevity of this poem. As the most basic unit of social composition, the harmony and stability of each family is related to the healthy development of the whole society. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why people attach so much importance to marriage and family relations.
In the entire Book of Poetry, the poets regard marriage and family as very important, not only in the poem "Peach Death", in a sense, the content of marriage and family is in the first place of the Book of Poetry.
It is precisely for the above reasons that the poem "Peach Dream" has been appreciated by generations of literati and has been recited to this day, and because of its aesthetic value of truth, goodness and beauty and the concept of harmonious and prosperous family, it shows the important position of marriage and family in ancient China