Cardamom refers to young girls aged thirteen or fourteen. In ancient times, cardamom was generally used as a metaphor for young girls. This quote is from Du Mu's "Farewell": "gracefully curling up more than thirteen, cardamom tips at the beginning of February." Du Mu was a poet in the Tang Dynasty, and this poem is a parting poem written by Du Mu to a woman of red dust in Yangzhou. It expresses the author's very sincere feelings.
The original work:
Graceful curls more than thirteen, cardamom tips at the beginning of February.
Spring breeze ten miles of Yangzhou Road, roll on the pearl curtain is not as good.
This poem is the poet in 835 AD (Dahuo nine years), transferred to the supervision of the royal historian, away from Yangzhou to Chang'an, and prostitutes respectively. The first poem focuses on her beauty, praising her as the most beautiful among the Yangzhou songstresses.
The first sentence describes the body posture of the girl, wonderful age and charm; the second sentence of the flower is a metaphor for people, write her small and beautiful; three, four sentences, to the star arching the moon, write Yangzhou is very much beautiful, only she is only pretty. Maneuvering on the strong and weak, there is "in addition to the Wushan is not the cloud" of the concept. The language is pure and nimble, free and easy, and the emotion is sincere and clear, and swings from the heart.