In ancient Chinese poetry and songs, metaphor, exaggeration, lyricism and other techniques were often used to give many birds and plants human character and characteristics. In many poems, birds and plants give vivid meaning, making the poem more beautiful and like a song, highlighting the figurative thinking of the poem. In ancient Chinese poetry, pine, bamboo and plum have different meanings, especially in ancient Chinese culture, the dragon, phoenix, turtle and unicorn are the four mascots; It is also often used to describe companions who love each other.
The bird, which is a special bird with only one eye and one wing, must be two birds together to fly in the sky. Ancient Chinese poetry often uses vivid metaphors and exaggerations to express one's heart lyrically; Therefore, birds are often used as metaphors for dependent partners, who have long loved each other, rely on each other for survival, and have beautiful poetry and beautiful pictures.
Yu Gui, a poet during the Song Dynasty, has a poem that uses winged birds to symbolize love, which is truly touching: "Without words, beauty is separated for a long time." The road is repaired and long, and the spring grass is several times blue. Phoenix cold sideburned clouds, lunar mirror light clouds. In the past, it was a bird, but now it is a lonely bird. Wear no clothes, and the waist should be thin and narrow."
In the poem, "Birds of the Past Wings" love each other and love each other all the time, and "Lonely Flying Birds in the Present" see deep affection.
A connecting branch is two branches that grow together. Even branches are rarely seen in nature. It is precisely because of the rarity that ancient Chinese poets, they cleverly conceived, gave Lian Lizhi poetry and pictorial meaning. Lian Li branch is called the acacia tree, husband and wife tree, life and death tree, etc., with beautiful meanings like songs and deep feelings. Zhu Shuzhen, a poet during the Song Dynasty, had a little poem: "Even the branches and flowers are blooming, and the jealous flowers will urge each other." May the Young Emperor always be the Lord, and do not order green moss."
In ancient China, Lian Lizhi was used as a metaphor: men and women who have a fate to become husband and wife, they are not separated in their lives, and they have a strong poetry and painting to live together.
The great poet Bai Juyi, borrowed the birds and the Lian Lizhi skillfully and naturally, and used them in the famous poem "Long Hate Song". Let "Long Hate Song" have more wonderful poetry and picture sense. At the end of "Long Hate Song", Bai Juyi wrote about the affection between Tang Ming Emperor Li Longji and the noble concubine Yang Yuhuan, how sad and helpless they were unwilling to separate, and they really never shed tears, especially reluctant to be sad: "On the seventh day of July, when no one whispered in the middle of the night. In heaven wish to be a winged bird, and in earth wish to be a branch. The days are long and the time is over, and this hatred lasts forever. ”
The great poet of the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi, wrote the planting of "Lian Lizhi" and "Biyi Bird" into the poem "Long Hate Song" at the same time, making the artistic conception and meaning of "Long Hate Song" more distinct. Whenever I read "In heaven's wish to be a winged bird, in the earth's wish to be a branch", readers will have heartfelt admiration. This is the most representative work in ancient Chinese literature that combines birds and plants into poetry.
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