What does the interpretation of the ancient poem Xiaochi mean?

Xiaochi is a poem by Yang Wanli, a poet in the Song Dynasty. The whole poem uses rich and novel imagination and personification techniques to describe in detail the characteristics and changes of natural scenery around Xiaochi, and shows the poet's love for nature. The whole poem means that spring is silent because it can't stand the thin water, and the shade reflected in the water likes the soft scenery in this sunny day. As soon as the lotus leaf emerged from the water, a little dragonfly was already standing on it.

Original works:

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Yang Wanli [Song Dynasty]

The silence of spring is because I don't want a long stream of water, and the shadow reflected on the water is like sunny days and breezes.

The delicate lotus flower bud shows a sharp corner from the water, and a naughty little dragonfly stands on its head.

Comment on words and phrases:

The outlet of the spring.

Cherish: stingy.

Shiny water: reflected in the water.

Soft sunshine: a soft landscape on a sunny day.

Sharp corner: the tip of the lotus leaf that is not stretched at the beginning of the water.

Top: top, top. In order to rhyme, "head" is not read softly.

Appreciation of works:

This poem is a fresh poem describing the beauty of the pond in early summer. Everything is so beautiful, so soft and so affectionate. Just like a colorful ink painting of flowers, birds, insects and fish. The pond, spring, stream, lotus and dragonfly in the picture are all small, but they are exquisite and full of vitality.

The first sentence, closely related to the topic, is the source of a small pool, a trickle of spring water. The spring water flowed out of the hole silently, of course, it was very small. The flowing spring forms a trickle, smaller. This is a very common thing, but the author added a word "poor" out of thin air, saying that Yan Quan seemed to cherish it and was reluctant to shed more money. So this poem immediately flew and became affectionate, interesting and full of humanity.

In the second sentence, write the shade in the soft sunshine and cover the water. This is also a very common thing, but the poet added the word "love", which seems to cover the pond with her shade to prevent the water from evaporating and drying up, thus turning ruthlessness into sentience. Moreover, the poem takes the form of shadow, focusing on the soft branches on the water, which is very ethereal.

Write three or four sentences about a small lotus flower in the pool and a dragonfly on it. Xiao-he just emerged from the water, showing great vitality, but there was a little dragonfly standing on this sharp tender corner, which seemed to get there first and enjoy the scenery in early summer. Xiao He and Dragonfly, a "talent show" and an "early riser", look at everything around them with novel eyes and capture fleeting scenery.

The whole poem is entitled "Xiaochi", and the word "Xiao" is specially written. Poetry needs to have a different theme from that just now, and some major themes should be written with magnificent realm and momentum; Some subjects are very small, just a detail in life, but they can write about love and fun. And this poem is like a painting, with rich layers: the sun, trees, lotus flowers, ponds, bright colors, bright sunshine, dark green shade, green lotus flowers, fresh dragonflies and clear springs. The picture is full of motion: flying dragonflies, shadowy pool water, full of poetry and painting.

Creative background:

Xiaochi is contained in the seventh volume of Chengzhai Collection and Jianghu Collection. The poems recorded in this collection are basically arranged according to the time of employment and the order of seasons. Koike's eighth poem is Ice Shen Sui Tide. "Shen Bing" refers to Xichun's third year in Song Xiaozong (1 176), and "Sui Dynasty" refers to the first day of the first lunar month, so the poem "Xiaochi" was written after the Spring Festival of that year. Koike's first and second poems are "Summer quatrains" and "Light rain in late spring", which shows that these two poems were written in late spring and early summer. The fifth poem after Koike is entitled "Fishing for Sesshū Tōyō in Summer", which shows that the author still lives in the study of "Fishing for Sesshū Tōyō" in Jishui on that extremely hot day. In Jishui, even in Jiangxi and Hunan, the first time the lotus blooms is in the early May of the lunar calendar. According to the words "shade tree", "river" and "sharp corner" in the poem "Xiaochi", it can be inferred that the creation time of this poem should be at the beginning of May in the third year of Xichun (1 176). Its creation place is in Jishui County, and the "small pond" in the title refers to the big pond in front of "Father and Son Hou Di" in Yang Wanli's former residence.

About the author:

Yang Wanli (112710/October 29th-1June 2006 15), whose real name was Ting Xiu, was called. Jishui, Jizhou (now Tang Qiu Village, huangqiao town, Jishui County, Jiangxi Province). Famous poets and ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty, together with Lu You, You Mao and Fan Chengda, are called "Four Poets of Zhongxing". Scholars call Song Guangzong "Mr. Chengzhai" because he wrote the word "Chengzhai". Yang Wanli wrote more than 20,000 poems in his life, and 4,200 works were handed down from generation to generation. He is regarded as a generation of poets. He used simple language, fresh and natural, full of humor, and created a "sincere style". Most of Yang Wanli's poems describe natural scenery and are good at it. He also has many chapters reflecting people's sufferings and expressing patriotic feelings. He is the author of Zhai Chengji and so on.