Late spring and early summer, the fourth and fifth lunar month, Jiangnan plums yellow, ripe, mostly rainy and cloudy time, known as the "rainy season", so that the rainy season in Jiangnan for the "yellow plum season". From the original text of Zhao Shixiu's Appointment of Guests:

It rains in every house during the yellow plum season, and there are frogs everywhere in the grassy ponds.

If you have an appointment and do not come halfway through the night, you can knock on the chess pieces and drop the lanterns.

Interpretation: When the plums are yellow, every house is enveloped in rain, and the sound of frogs comes from the pond full of green grass. It was past midnight, and the invited guests had not yet come, so I gently tapped the chess piece in boredom, shaking off the lumps that had formed on the wick of the oil lamp when I lit it.

Expanded Information:

Composition Background:

Appointment of Guests is a seven-character stanza written by the Southern Song Dynasty poet Zhao Shixiu. A seven-character stanza composed by the Southern Song poet Zhao Shixiu. The poem is about the poet's solo visit to a guest on a stormy summer night. The poem is written in the style of scene writing, expressing the poet's inner loneliness. The poem is a fresh, meaningful and intriguing blend of scene and mood.

Appreciation:

The first two lines of the poem are about scenery, depicting a picture of summer rain in Jiangnan. In the rainy season, the rain is continuous, the pond water rises, the frogs sound constantly, the countryside scene is so fresh and quiet, harmonious and wonderful. However, "all the words of the scene are words of love", the poet here is not to write the scene for the scene, but in the scene of the complexity of his thoughts and feelings of a solo period guest.

"Rain in every house" not only depicts the omnipresence of summer rain and the rapid intensity of the rain, showing the freshness and quietness of the countryside, but also hints at the objective reasons why the guests could not go to the appointment as scheduled, revealing the poet's helplessness to the rainy weather of the continuous rain. "Everywhere frogs" is written in the pond frogs, but also the use of sound to set off the quiet writing style, highlighting the rainy season in the countryside at night in a quiet and harmonious atmosphere.

At the same time, it also reflects the poet's lonesome and lonely state of mind. These two lines of the poem from the visual and auditory aspects, image and real performance in the dead of night, the poet alone expect guests but the guests never appeared when the unique psychological feelings. The rain that falls all over the countryside is continuous, and the frogs' drums are incessant.

It was very harmonious and wonderful, but it was annoying: this continuous rain blocked the friends as promised, such as the drums of the frogs, disturbed the poet's state of mind. At this moment, the poet how to hope that the friend rain or shine, as expected, and he together with the chess to eliminate sorrow.