The poem "Jiangnan Spring" means: The vast south of the Yangtze River is full of warblers and swallows, green trees and red flowers, and wine flags fluttering in the villages by the water, and in the towns and cities at the foot of the mountains. Many of the ancient temples left behind by the Southern Dynasties are now covered in the mist and rain.

Source: Jiangnan Spring - Tang Dynasty: Du Mu

Thousand miles of warblers cry in green and red, and wine flags flutter in the water villages and mountains.

The four hundred and eighty temples in the south, how many buildings in the smoky rain.

Expanded Information

1. Background of Jiangnan Spring

This is a famous poem about scenery. It is small in length and paints a vast picture. It does not take a specific place as the object, but focuses on the unique scenery of the whole Jiangnan, so it is entitled Jiangnan Spring.

2, "Jiangnan Spring" appreciation

"Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties", "Southern Dynasties" refers to the Eastern Jin Dynasty after the Sui Dynasty before the Song Dynasty, Qi, Liang, Chen four dynasties, were built in Jiankang (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), known as the Southern Dynasties. The phrase "four hundred and eighty temples" describes the large number of Buddhist temples. Because at that time, Buddhism was very popular in the Southern Dynasty, and many temples were built. This sentence means that more than four hundred and eighty ancient temples were left behind in the Southern Dynasty.

Poet in the "water village mountain Guo wine flag wind" on a turn, the line of sight focused on the "temple" on the imagination space to widen, thinking back to the "Southern Dynasty", so, to enhance the historical and cultural significance of the poem, and also to give the In this way, it enhances the historical and cultural connotation of the poem, and raises the aesthetic realm of the poem. The poet uses "temple" to refer to Buddhism, and "four hundred and eighty" as an imaginary number to modify, which not only makes the poem rich in image, but also corresponds to the "thousands of miles" in the first line. The poem not only makes the poem rich in images, but also reflects the "thousands of miles" in the first line.