The air is filled with the breath of spring.

The air is filled with the breath of spring.

Hong xingchang

Interpretation: An affair is described as an affair.

In Ye Song Shaoweng's poem "A small garden is not worth visiting": "Spring breeze can't close the garden, and an almond comes out of the wall." .

Use subject-predicate form; Be the subject; Refers to the wife having an affair.

Solution:

In ancient poetry, "apricot blossom" has always been synonymous with spring scenery, among which there are many famous sentences such as "red apricot branches are full of spring" and "apricot blossom news rain" Compared with peach blossoms, apricot blossoms are more appreciated by literati and poets. Why? Yang Wanli has a poem "Apricot Flowers": "White words are not true white, and scarlet letters are not red. Please red and white, don't look at nature. " This is neither white nor red, it's very powerful. If you are a delicate and shy person, it is easy to cause a lot of reverie. Peach blossom has always been an adjective of "death" and "death of peach". Brilliant red splash is far less subtle than the apricot blossom with "white inside and red outside".

The famous beauty associated with apricot flowers is Yang Guifei. After Yang Yuhuan's death in Maweipo, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was obsessed with this and sent someone to collect his body. There are no more beautiful bones, only apricot flowers. So Yang Guifei was honored by the people as the God of Apricot Blossoms in February. Once the apricot blossom is associated with Yang Guifei's beauty, the word romantic will naturally fall. Li Yu, an erotic novelist in the Qing Dynasty, even talked nonsense: "People who plant fake apricots will bear countless fruits if they tie their skirts to trees. Yu Chu did not believe it, so he gave it a try. There is nothing better than the apricot tree, which is called the romantic tree. "

Apricot blossoms refer to spring, and then to romantic beauty, or not; The key problem is that this apricot flower always hooks up with the "wall". What is a "wall"? Look at the description of the ancients:

Su Shi's Butterfly Loves Flowers: Swing in the Wall, Road Outside the Wall. The layman in the wall, the beauty in the wall laughs. The laughter died away, and so did the sound. Affectionate but heartless chagrin.

Jiang Kui's youth journey: Yang's head, outside the pear wall, two people know what he is thinking.

Lu You's Hairpin Phoenix: red crisp hands, yellow wine, and spring willows in the city.

Wall means "partition". There is only one person at both ends of the wall, complaining about men and women; The two ends of the wall are separated by men and women, which is a pair of infatuation. Therefore, "wall" is a very ambiguous thing. Look at the hook between the apricot blossom and the wall:

Rong's "Looking at Apricot Flowers on the Road": A red branch is on the wall, and the layman is lonely on the wall.

Wu's "Apricot Blossoms on the Wall": Red apricots bloom in the west, and there are countless flowers on the partition wall.

Wang Song Anshi's Apricot Flowers: The unique apricot flowers are like inviting guests and counting red branches against the wall.

Wei Song's "Bodhisattva Man": Two or three rooms across the river, an affair.

Jin Yuanhao asked "Xinghua Miscellaneous Poems". There is a horizontal wall outside the apricot blossom wall, and the semi-palace is full of makeup.

Zhang Song Chen Liang's Occasionally: You can't hide the beautiful spring scenery, but the pink walls reveal the apricot blossom tips.

Immediately, it is the work of you: the willow does not cover the spring scenery, and an apricot goes out of the wall.

It can be seen that before Ye Shaoweng, many people liked to put apricot flowers and walls together, but Lao Ye just picked up the wisdom of others. Well, since there are countless people with lofty ideals who like to stick the shy apricot flowers on the wall representing the separation of men and women, and always like to let Miss Apricot Flowers look around the wall, the extension and association of "An Xing Out of the Wall" becomes logical.

When did "having an affair" become a euphemism for women cheating?

The earliest source may be the story book "A Ghost in the Western Hills" in the Song Dynasty. Among them, women are described as "like twisting a green plum to see a handsome boy, like riding an apricot out of the wall." This sentence is about the love story of Pei and Li Qianjin regardless of ethics. According to this story, Bai Pu of the Yuan Dynasty also wrote the famous zaju "Up the Wall at once". After the Yuan Dynasty, the usage of "having an affair with an almond" became more and more obvious. For example, "like almonds coming out of the wall, you can't break them, and you can't teach people to be ashamed of flowers because of the wind and rain." In modern times, the usage of "having an affair" is fixed. Liu Ruoyun of Yuanyang Butterfly School also wrote a famous book "The Story of an Apricot Out of the Wall".

Because of the special position of "red apricot" and "wall head" in ancient literature, "red apricot out of the wall" is usually only an implicit reference, which implies that this kind of derailment has a reason, "a small mouth can't be opened for a long time" and "the garden can't be closed in spring" Therefore, it contains a shallow "romantic" compliment.