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Why did ancient poets in China often express their feelings with phoenix trees and plantains?

Ancient writers in China often used buttonwood and loquat trees to express their worries. From the source, China's classical literature pays attention to the combination of "comparison" and "xing" skills. Wang Fuzhi's Biography of Poems said: "Those who give, give, talk openly about Chen Qi. Compare, compare this thing with another. In the original text, "compare with others, compare with this thing" is because another thing has similar characteristics with this thing, so the two have poetry that sets each other off.

The ancients also paid attention to "harmony between man and nature", and man and nature were both contradictory and unified. The law of natural development is the law of human development. The ups and downs of natural things match the ups and downs of human things, and human social attributes will increase the projection of natural things. Therefore, in a specific situation, natural things "plane tree" and "loquat tree" have become a representative and a cultural medium.

Loquat tree:? This artistic conception is often associated with anxiety and desolation. Loquat trees are often used to describe their own sadness. First, because banana leaves are semi-curly, it seems that people are unhappy when they are angry, and bowing their heads is often a representative of bitterness; Second, when the loquat tree is green, it is often rainy, and spring goes to summer, and the rain hits the banana, giving people a bitter feeling. For example, "Bananas don't show lilac knots, and the wind is sad in the same direction" (Li Shangyin's "Two Gifts", the first part) is about the sadness and resentment that women can't get together with their lovers.

Sycamore tree is a big tree with dead leaves, with straight stems and green and smooth roots. It has a strong vitality, so its flowers are flourishing, and at the same time it has more leaves than ordinary flowers and trees. So in autumn, the plane leaves fall, leaving an empty indoor space. Only a large number of bleak branches and dead leaves drift with the wind, making it difficult to decide how to drift. This lonely scene makes the writer's heart generate. For example, the original sentence of Su Song Dongpo's "Moonless Cloth Notes Shu Hangtong" is like this: There is no moon hanging over Shu Tong, and beginning of life is quiet. Who saw you alone, Hong Ying. Surprised to fly but turned around, no one saved. Pick up all the cold branches and don't want to live. Lonely sandbars are very cold.