What does peach blossom mean?

Meaning: It is a metaphor for the beauty of a girl. It is also used to describe that men and women meet and fall in love, and then after separation, men miss the past.

Pinyin: rén miàn táo huā

From: Cui Hu's "South Village of Capital"

Full text: On this day last year, in this door, peach blossoms set each other off. I don't know where to go, but the peach blossom in the spring breeze still smiles.

Commentary: Last year, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, a person was traveling in Nanzhuang, a suburb of Chang 'an, and walked to the front of a farmer's house with peach blossoms. A beautiful girl came out and received him warmly, leaving an unforgettable impression on the other side. When Tomb-Sweeping Day came back the next year, the door was closed and the girl didn't know where it was. Only peach blossoms are still in full bloom against the spring breeze.

Extended data:

The story of a peach blossom with a face: In the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam. Once he visited the suburbs south of the city and saw a nice hut, so he made an excuse to go in and have a look. I didn't expect to see a beautiful girl in the room at first sight.

The next year, when Tomb-Sweeping Day returned to that room, he found that the door was locked and people didn't know where to go, so he wrote a poem: "Today last year, in this door, people's faces set each other off and people didn't know where to go." Peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze. "Then I went back. ?

A few days later, he returned to that place. This time, the door was unlocked, but he also saw the girl's father. The girl's father told him sadly, "My daughter was lovesick because she read his poems, but she died unexpectedly." He was very sad after hearing this, and he couldn't help crying with the girl in his arms. I didn't expect the girl to wake up at this moment. It turned out that she just fainted. Soon after, the recovering girl married the scholar. Later generations used the poem "Peach Blossoms have Faces" to describe the beauty of girls.

References:

Peach Blossom-Baidu Encyclopedia