Vanilla Beauty connotes the idea of loyalty and love for the country. From Qu Yuan's "Li Sao", it refers to a loyal and virtuous person.
1, the connotation of "vanilla":
"Chushu" is written about grass and trees in many places.
Since the Chu Shi glorified herbs and trees, and denounced the stinking grass and trees, these natural objects have been personified, and endowed with different qualities, such as good and evil, noble and vile.
2. The connotation of "beauty":
"Beauty" symbolizes the friendship between ruler and subject by the love of man and woman. There are many references to "beauty" in Li Sao and Nine Chapters, sometimes referring to the ruler and sometimes to the poet himself.
Qu Yuan used the love and marriage between a man and a woman to symbolize the situation between the ruler and the minister. In the feudal era, a subject was appreciated by the monarch just as a woman was loved by a man, so a subject pining for the monarch was like pining for a beauty.
Expanded Information
As a carrier of ideals and emotional expression, "Chu Shi" also established a system of imagery centered on "Vanilla Beauty" for ancient Chinese poems and fugues. At the same time, it also created the metaphorical rhetorical technique of "vanilla beauty" as a support.
In today's world, love and marriage between a man and a woman are essentially different from the relationship between a ruler and a subject, or between friends. But in ancient literature and art they were linked together. On the surface, it is written that men and women are in love, but in reality, it is said that the ruler and ministers are in love with each other, which is called to have a trust. It is also said that this kind of beauty of the thought, politely put the author of the pursuit of the ideal of life.
Pengcheng Evening News - "Vanilla Beauty" is a romance created by Qu Yuan in another kingdom