Source: Longshang Poetry Book
【1】
The same generation is endowed with unopened begonias
Kim Won asked
The new green between the branches is heavy, and the little buds hide a few reds.
Cherish your heart and don't vomit lightly, and teach the peach and plum to make a spring breeze.
The green leaves between the branches of the begonia are luxuriant, overlapping and overlapping, and the small flower buds are hidden in them, revealing a little red. It cherishes its noble heart very much, and never confides in others easily, so let the peach and plum that likes to be lively bloom in the spring breeze!
The new green between the branches is heavy, and the little buds hide a few reds.
The first two lines of the poem describe the branches and leaves of begonias and budding buds. From "a heavy weight", we can know that the begonia tree is already luxuriant, and from "Xiaolei", we can know that the begonia flowers have not yet opened, which is closely related to the "begonia has not opened" in the title of the poem. Usually when the foliage is luxuriant, it is often difficult for people to detect the small flower buds hidden in them, which shows that the poet observed very carefully, and the word "deep" can just corroborate.
Although the begonias have not yet fully opened, the breath of spring is already very strong. The "new green" of the leaves and the "red" of the small buds are bright and lovable. This "little bud" is like the poet's child, growing up and maturing in this world, the longer she grows, the more beautiful she becomes, and the poet's love for the child is also implied in it.
Cherish your heart and don't vomit lightly, and teach the peach and plum to make a spring breeze.
Perhaps, the place where the poet and the children enjoyed the flowers happened to be peach blossoms and plum blossoms. The warm spring breeze and the peach and plum spring are beautiful scenery, but after all, they will soon wither away after a few storms.
The begonia flower is different, it modestly hides next to the peach and plum in spring, without saying a word, and only when the peach blossoms and plum blossoms fall will her beautiful face bloom. In response to the phrase "the last laugh is the real winner." This philosophy.
Why did the poet give such affectionate advice to the children to "cherish their hearts"? The peach and plum frolicked in the spring breeze and showed off the limelight, but they also quickly ended up with the consequence of "Lin Hua thanked him too quickly", which came and went quickly, and it was the final end of their showing off.
The poet does not want children to "sell peaches and plums", and hopes that "be careful not to be peaches and plums". This is Yuan Haowen's life experience of walking the rivers and lakes for decades, he has seen too many people like "Tao Li", and he doesn't want his children to repeat the mistakes of the past, and the greatness of father's love leaps on paper.
【2】
Spring Cold
Song Chen and Yi
In February, Baling is windy, and the spring cold is not over.
Begonias do not hesitate to be rouge, independent in the drizzle.
In Baling in February, the wind is blowing non-stop every day, and the spring cold is expected to be endless, which worries me. Only the begonia flowers do not spare the bright flowers, standing alone in the cold wind and rain and quietly blooming.
The poem was written in 1129, when the Southern Song Dynasty had not yet gained a foothold, and the Jin people would sweep in at any time. In order to survive, Chen Youyi went all the way south to Yueyang, and lived in the gentleman's pavilion received by the county guard, calling himself "Yuan Gong". One day in February, with wind and rain, he saw that the begonia flowers did not change their color and bloomed proudly in the wind and rain, and composed this poem.
In February, Baling is windy, and the spring cold is not over.
The first two lines of the poem explain the weather in Baling and the poet's own inner mood. "Daily wind" indicates that the weather is very bad, and the word "spring cold" makes people feel cold. The poet thought of the begonia flowers blooming in the garden, and suddenly became worried, laying the groundwork for the independent drizzle of begonias below.
"Wind" and "cold" not only indicate the weather, but also the wind and cold of the society at that time - the Jin people went south, the mountains and rivers were broken, and the poet himself was wandering and wandering, and he had no fixed place, so he naturally felt "timid".
Begonias do not hesitate to be rouge, independent in the drizzle.
If the first two sentences of the poet are still worried about whether the begonia flowers in the garden can survive the spring cold and wind and rain, then these two sentences express the poet's joy when he sees the begonia flowers standing proudly in the wind and rain.
Begonias will naturally be slightly ruined after the baptism of wind and rain, but the poet focuses on "no expense of rouge" and "independent drizzle". Begonia flowers naturally do not have human emotions, and it is the poet himself who has feelings. If you look at things with affection, everything has affection. In this way, the begonia flower in the wind and rain is the poet himself.
It is not so much to write "spring cold", but to say "Yong Begonia". The poet gave the noble character of "Meilan Bamboo Chrysanthemum" to Begonia, with novel ideas, and the realm of poetry has also been raised a lot. The elegant and lonely character of the begonia flower is the spiritual portrayal of the poet in exile. Combined with the social background of the time, poetry also has a universal character that transcends personal feelings.
【3】
After the rain, it became a must
Song. Wang Yan
The water shakes the mountain shadow and is green and heavy, and the rain hits the flowers, so it is annoying.
Lai Youtang poured the color of the country, and smiled to relieve the spring.
The spring rain comes, the spring water is rippling, the spring mountain appears more intense, full of green, the rain does not care about the feeling of the flower, beats the flower body as much as possible, the ground is full of red, which makes people annoyed. Fortunately, there is still the color of the city and the country on the begonia tree, she stands proudly in the wind and rain, and smiles skillfully in the branches, so she leaves the fleeting spring light in my heart.
The poem adopts the technique of wanting to promote and suppress it.
I think anyone who sees the flowers will be sad! The fall of spring flowers means that spring is coming to an end, and time is so easy to pass that it makes people infinitely melancholy. Suddenly, the poet saw the begonia in the wind and rain, and it seemed to understand the poet's psychology. Not afraid of wind and rain, quietly blooming its charming face on the branches, it turns out that the begonias are not finished, the spring is not far away, and the poet's soul has been comforted.
【4】
Begonia
Don He Xiyao
著雨胭脂点点消，半开时节最妖娆。
Who has a golden house, and the deep lock is stored in the east wind.
This poem is very vivid, when the begonia is still a bud, its color is crimson, after the spring rain moisturizes, the bud slowly blooms, just like a woman rubbing rouge on her face when she puts on makeup, and the color also changes from dark red to light red.
The poet sees the begonia flowers that bloom after the rain as a woman's makeup, which is very vivid. It not only writes about the different colors of begonia flowers before and after the spring rains, but also implies the dynamic beauty of begonia flowers when they bloom. At this time, the begonia flowers will bloom, enchanting and charming, and the most loved by poets.
In the last two sentences, the poet uses the allusion of "the golden house hides Jiao". It is not easy to cultivate begonias in the Tang Dynasty, and those who can only be appreciated are those who are in high power and have thousands of gold, which is very suitable for the background of the allusion. The poet put the begonia flower and Gillian together, and also described the beauty of the begonia.
Beauty can hide in the golden house, and begonia flowers can also be! If the east wind can always keep the begonia flowers and lock the time and not allow it to move, how good it would be! The poet's love for begonias can be seen, and at the same time, it also implies the psychology of cherishing spring.
—Jun An—