Peach blossoms have always been the object of the literati inkers' favorite chants. Among the poems, there are countless poems about peach blossoms.
But the most famous peach blossom poems are "Shijing TaoYao" and the Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hu's "Title Capital City Nanzhuang".
Although these two poems are about peach blossoms, one is a brilliant joy and a regret and loss.
The Book of Poetry tells the story of a woman getting married.
Poetry Sutra Peach Dream
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.
Zhou Li Yun: "Zhongchun, Linghui men and women." ”
Peach blossoms bloom in thousands of flowers, and the colors are bright red like fire. The girl was going to get married and returned to her husband's house with joy.
Peach blossoms bloom in thousands of flowers, and the fruits are large and sweet. This girl is going to get married, and she will have a noble son and heir to Wang.
Peach blossoms bloom in the tens of millions, and green leaves flourish with the wind. The girl was going to get married, and her husband's family was happy and peaceful.
The Zhou Dynasty generally married girls when the peach blossoms were in full bloom in the spring, so the poets used the peach blossoms to sing a hymn for the bride, which was similar in nature to the "hypnotic words" sung at the folk weddings of later generations.
When the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the woman is married, and she is full of joy and is as splendid as a peach blossom.
The poem is fresh and bright and catchy. Qing Dynasty scholar Yao Jiheng commented on this poem: Peach blossoms are the most colorful, so the ancients used peach blossoms as a metaphor for women, and opened a precedent for singing beautiful women with peach blossoms.
It is often said that the first person to use flowers to compare beauty is genius, the second to use flowers to compare beauty is mediocre, and the third to use flowers to compare beauty is stupid.
This poem is undoubtedly a work of genius. Many later peach blossom poems were deeply influenced by this poem, and Cui Hu's "Title Capital City Nanzhuang" is no exception.
Title capital City Nanzhuang
Last year, in this door, the faces of people were peach blossoms.
People don't know where to go, and peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze.
The poem sets up two scenes: "Looking for Spring meets Beauty" and "Re-finding No Encounter", although the scenes are the same, but things are not people. This poem is popular among the population, especially with the two sentences "People don't know where to go, peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze".
There is also a moving story behind this poem.
Meng Tang's "Benshi Poem" records such a story: During the Tang Dynasty, the boling youth Cui Hu lived in Chang'an, and in the year of Qingming, Cui Hu went on a spring trip to the outskirts of Chang'an.
After playing, I feel thirsty. I saw a family, so I knocked on the door and asked for a glass of water. A woman opened the door and brought a bowl of water to Cui Hu.
Cui Hu drank the water and looked up at the woman, who leaned under the peach blossom tree and quietly looked at Cui Hu. The peach blossoms are imprinted on the woman's flower-like face, which is heartwarming. Cui Hu returned home in a daze.
A year later, Cui Hu came to the old place again, but the door was closed, and there was no longer the original woman, only the peach blossoms in the courtyard, still blooming as before.
Although the poem has a certain plot, it interprets a universal experience of life: encountering something beautiful by chance and inadvertently, and when you deliberately pursue it, you can never get it back. This is perhaps one of the reasons why the poem maintains its enduring artistic vitality.
Now, when people talk about peach blossom poems, they instinctively think of these two poems. "Peach of death, scorching its glory", just when the young woman is married, a brilliant joy, reading this poem, people's lips float up with smiles.
"Peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze" but with pity and loss, telling the story of things are not human. "Things are human beings" will always exist in human emotions, and this poem has thus become a famous sentence throughout the ages, which has always existed in people's hearts.