On this day last year, in this door,

Peach blossoms set each other off in red.

People don't know where to go,

Peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze.

Source:

China's Poetry-Tang and Five Dynasties-Cuihu

Precautions:

This is a lyric poem with sincere feelings. At the end of Cuihu Jinshi, Tomb-Sweeping Day traveled alone in Nanzhuang, a suburb of Chang 'an, and walked to the front of a farmer's house with peach blossoms. A beautiful girl came out and received him warmly, leaving an unforgettable impression on the other side. When Tomb-Sweeping Day came back the next year, the door was closed and the girl didn't know where she was. Only peach blossoms are still in full bloom against the spring breeze, which makes people feel melancholy.

There is a legendary skill in this poem: "Cuihu ... promoted the scholar to the next position. During the Qingming Festival, he traveled to the south of the city alone, and he got a house full of people and an acre of palace. The flowers and trees were crowded and lonely. After a long time, a woman peeked through the door and asked, "Who is it? "I follow my surname, I said," I am looking for spring and walking alone, and I want to drink. " The woman arrived with a glass of water, opened the door, made a bed and sat down, leaning against Momo Xie Ke, standing alone, but with a strong meaning, coquetry and coquetry. Cui used words to pick, wrong, and it took a long time to notice. Cui resigned and delivered it to the door. If he is at a loss, Cui also hopes to return. Never come back again. And next year's Qingming, suddenly remembered, can't help but look for it. The door wall is the same, but I have locked it, because the poem is written on the door on the left ... "(Tang Mengbang's" Skill Poetry Emotion ").

It is doubtful whether you really have this "skill". Perhaps it is to have a poem first and then apply it to the above "skills". But two things seem to be certain: first, this poem has a plot; Second, the above "skills" help to understand this poem.

There are two scenes in the four poems that are the same and reflect each other. Scene 1: Seeking for Spring and Meeting Beauty-"On this day last year, in this door, people's faces and peaches set each other off." If we really believe in this kind of thing, we should admit that the poet really grasped the most beautiful and moving scene "Peach Blossoms set each other off in red" in the whole process of "seeking beauty in spring", which not only set a beautiful background for the "peach blossom-like" face, but also set off the radiant face of the girl, implicitly showing the poet's infatuation and emotion, as well as the situation that the two sides were affectionate but did not communicate. Through this most touching scene, readers can be inspired to imagine many beautiful things before and after. At this point, Bai Meng's "poetic art" may be exactly what he did, especially in his later operas (such as Peach Blossom).

The second scene: find again. It is also the season of spring, and it is also the gateway for flowers and trees to bloom and peach blossoms to hide. However, the "human face" that adds luster to all this has gone nowhere, and only a peach blossom in front of the door is still smiling in the spring breeze. The association of spring breeze peach blossom laughter originally originated from "peach blossom and human face reflect red" Today last year, the girl I met unexpectedly under Taoke must be smiling and affectionate; Today's peach blossom, with a sad face and the same smile, can evoke better memories of the past and the feeling that the good times are not always there. What else can it do? The word "return" contains infinite disappointment.

In fact, the whole poem takes "human face" and "peach blossom" as the main lines, and through the comparison between "last year" and "today", it expresses the poet's feelings caused by these two different experiences tactfully. Contrast and thinking play an extremely important role in this poem. Because the lost beauty is written in the memory, the memory is particularly precious, beautiful and full of emotion, which is a vivid description of "peach blossoms set each other off"; It is precisely because of such beautiful memories that I am particularly disappointed with the loss of beautiful things, and therefore I have the feeling that "people don't know where to go, but peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze"

Although this poem has some plots, legendary techniques and even drama, it is not a narrative poem, but a lyric poem. "Skill" may contribute to its wide spread, but its typical significance lies in describing a certain life experience, rather than telling a story that people are interested in. Readers may not have met stories in similar skill poems, but they may have had such a life experience: they accidentally and inadvertently met something beautiful, but when they deliberately pursued it, they could never get it back. This may be one of the reasons why this poem has maintained its enduring artistic vitality.

"Seeking Beauty in Spring" and "Seeking Nothing Again" can be written as narrative poems. The author didn't write it like this, but it just shows that Tang people are more accustomed to feeling the events in life with the eyes and feelings of lyric poets.