Poems describing little girls

Dian Lips·Kick the Swing

Author Li Qingzhao Song Dynasty

Kick the swing and get up to straighten your slender hands. The dew is thick and the flowers are thin, and the sweat is thin and the clothes are light.

When guests come in, gold hairpins slip out of socks. He walked away shyly, leaned against the door and looked back, sniffing the green plums.

Translation Notes

I stood up from the swing, too lazy to rub my delicate hands. Beside her, crystal dewdrops hung on the thin flower branches, and the fragrant sweat on her body penetrated the thin Luo Yi.

A customer suddenly came in. She was so panicked that she didn't even bother to put on her shoes, so she left wearing only her socks, and even the golden hairpin on her head fell off. She ran away shyly, leaned against the door and looked back, smelling the fragrance of green plum blossoms again.

Appreciation

Li Qingzhao's "Red Lips" depicts the image of an innocent aristocratic girl who is in love. It expresses the poet Li Qingzhao's strong pursuit of love and desire for freedom.

The top line of the poem depicts an innocent, lively and beautiful image of a flowery girl with a petite body, sweat beads on her forehead and temples, and fragrant sweat coming from her light clothes just after she got off the swing. The original meaning of "贴" is to step on, to step on, and to "stop the swing" means to have just finished swinging on the swing. "Lazy" means laziness and sleepiness; "lazy" means too lazy to clean up. I had just finished swinging, and my hands were full of dirt and mud. I was too lazy to wash them, so I just wandered around the garden leisurely and happily. This kind of informal behavior can only be done by an innocent girl who is not bound by etiquette. The descriptions of the characters here are so real and natural, yet so delicate and vivid. "The dew is thick and the flowers are thin." I had forgotten everything while playing on the swing. When I took a break, I realized how beautiful the garden was: it was the early spring weather, and all kinds of flowers, far and near, high and low, were in bud; If you look closely, you will see that there are round dewdrops on the delicate flower buds, which sparkle in the morning sun and create charming colors. Such a scene sets off the protagonist's joy and excitement, and reveals the poet's admiration for nature. "Hua Shou" refers to a flower in bud, which also hints at the protagonist's identity as a girl. This sentence not only describes the scene but also metaphors the person, and the pun is appropriate, natural and clever. "Sweat is thin and clothes are light," the protagonist is sweating, which shows that he is so invested in playing on the swing that he sweats without realizing it. This was purely the work of a young girl. After all, the protagonist is a woman from an official family, so she is just a "thin sweat", not a farmer's sweat who "sweats on the soil." The drawing here is very detailed and just right. "Qingyitou" closely follows "Lunong", and "Lunong" indicates that the weather is still too cool. The protagonist didn't notice it at all while playing, but when he stopped and sweated, he felt the coolness hit him, giving him the feeling of "light clothes see through".

The poet in Xiaqing turned his pen, causing the quiet word scene to stir up the wind. The girl writing about it suddenly found someone coming. She naturally and hurriedly didn't even bother to put on her shoes. Putting on his socks, he shyly ran towards the house, and the gold hairpin on his head slipped off. This vividly portrays another side of the image of a girl from a wealthy family: she has to abide by the so-called "propriety" mentality and actions under the constraints of feudal ethics. But she shyly ran to the door, but instead of immediately hiding in the house as usual, she "leaned against the door and looked back, sniffing the green plums." "Leaning on the door" means using the door as a cover, so as not to reveal anything, "as if holding the pipa to half-cover your face", so that you can look back; when you look, you don't dare to look directly, and you have to pretend to admire the flowers and smell the fragrance, but The corner of his eye had already fallen on that person. The three actions of "leaning", "returning" and "sniffing" are just like close-ups in movies. They not only capture the protagonist's movements, expressions and postures like a painting, but also accurately depict the protagonist's love, shyness, and love. A subtle psychological activity that is both joyful and nervous, exciting and fearful. The complex emotions of a girl who has just begun to fall in love and is bound by feudal etiquette are clearly and euphemistically, truly and naturally, delicately and vividly displayed in front of readers.