Source of innuendo

The source of innuendo is: "Five Poems on Reading History (No. 2)" by Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty: "Insinuations are made about people; although the patient does not know it; clever words are used to construct a person's crime; even the person who dies will not doubt it.".

Innuendo is an ancient legend and folk belief, mainly spread in the Yangtze River Basin of China, and its origin can be traced back to the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Legend has it that people who drink sandy water containing beetles will become blind. This kind of sandy water is often hidden by beetles at the bottom of the water. When people wash their hands by the river, the beetles will slip through the gaps between people's fingers when they are invisible. If sand and water are sprayed from time to time, people will be infected with a disease called "miasma" without even realizing it. This disease can lead to death in serious cases.

The original meaning of innuendo is to shoot someone's shadow with an arrow containing sand. Although the arrow will not directly hit the person's body, it can secretly hurt the person's body. Later it was extended to the use of metaphors, insinuations and other techniques to secretly slander, attack or frame others. The formation of implicit folk beliefs is closely related to the local social culture and natural environment.

Bai Juyi's writing characteristics:

1. Bai Juyi's poems advocate easy understanding

His poetic language is characterized by being approachable, with concise and bright words. , catchy and easy to recite. He likes to use simple and natural language to express social life and characters' emotions, such as "Farewell to the Ancient Grassland" and "Viewing the Cutting of Wheat". The language is natural and fluent, and the emotions are sincere and touching.

2. Bai Juyi's poetry has various forms

He is not only good at writing five-character and seven-character rhyme poems, but also good at writing ancient poetry and quatrains. His poems are not only rich and colorful in form, but also flexible in expression techniques. He is good at using contrast, analogy and other techniques to make the poems more vivid and meaningful.

3. Bai Juyi’s poems have strong practical and social significance

His poems not only describe social life and characters, but also reflect people’s lives and sufferings, and express Criticism and appeal to social reality. His poems such as "Pipa Play" and "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" profoundly reveal social contradictions and the complexity of human nature, and have extremely high literary and historical value.