What is the image of swallows in ancient poetry?

The images of swallows in ancient poems are:

1, the beauty of spring conveys the feeling of cherishing spring.

According to legend, swallows come to the north in spring and return to the south in autumn, so many poets beautify and praise it as a symbol of spring.

"Swallows come to the news agency, pears are behind the Qingming Festival" (Yan Shu's "Broken Array")

It means that the swallows arrived just in time for the social sacrifice, and the beautiful pear flower falls was behind Tomb-Sweeping Day.

These two sentences not only point out the season, but also point out the relationship between the season and the scenery, giving people a clear picture.

2. A symbol of love?

Swallows become a symbol of love because they fly together.

(1) The Book of Songs Swallows: "Swallows fly with uneven feathers. The son (the woman who was sent) went home and was sent to the wild. "

It means: Swallows fly around, with front and back. My sister married far away and sent to the suburbs to break up.

(2) Yan's "Linjiang Xian": "Falling flowers are independent, Swift Qi Fei."

It is because of this pair of swallows that couples are eager to fly with me.

3. Wandering and feeling sad, writing about wandering and wandering

(1) "Sacredness, intuition and analogy are the dominant thinking modes of the Han nationality" (Zhang Dainian? China's Thinking Deviation), flowers, birds, insects and fish are all written by literati, and birds and beasts show the poet's talent.

(2) The wild geese cry sadly for autumn, the apes sing, the fish spread enough, and the cicadas send high. The uncertainty of the swallow's habitat left a rich imagination space for the poet.

(3) or wandering, "every year is like a new swallow, roaming the vast sea to send a rafter" (Zhou Bangyan? Man Fang Ting);

(4) Or the ups and downs of life experience, "Looking at Chang 'an from afar, the future is full of spots, and it is difficult to go from south to north" (in front of Zhang Kejiu Palace);

4. A symbol of peace?

Swallow's wings are sharp and long, its tail is separated like scissors, and it flies beautifully, which is called "Yanwu".

Du Fu's "Two Water Threads": "Fish come out in the drizzle, and Yan Xie in the breeze." ?

It means that it is raining in Mao Mao, and the fish jump out of the water happily; The breeze is blowing gently, and the swallows squint across the sky.

In ancient poetry, "Yan Dance" is often juxtaposed with "Ying Ge". As a typical image of good weather.

Extended data:

Yan is a migratory bird, which migrates with the change of seasons and likes to enter and leave people's houses or eaves in pairs.

Therefore, it is favored by the ancients and often appears in ancient poetry, or cherishes spring and hurts autumn, or exaggerates sadness, or reposes lovesickness, or is sentimental about current events, with rich images and expressive expressions, which are far behind other things.

Swallow is no longer just a swallow, it has become a symbol of China's traditional culture, and has been integrated into the blood of every Chinese descendant.