Two orioles sing green willows,

A line of egrets rose into the sky.

The window contains autumn snow in Xiling,

Mambo Wu Dong Wan Li Ship.

Don du fu

Since its birth, this Tang poem has been highly praised by scholars in past dynasties and has gradually become one of the teaching materials for educating children to learn Tang poetry in various dynasties. China's primary school textbooks are still the same.

Many scholars, poets, sociologists and historians have analyzed and studied Du Fu's easy-to-understand quatrains and made incisive comments. Out of love for it, I was attracted by its exquisite description when I first recited it when I was a child. Here, I would like to add my appreciation of this Tang poem. The meaning of pondering is self-evident.

On the whole, the whole poem is made up of two pairs (a form of couplets). The content contained in the 28 words of the whole poem far exceeds these 28 meanings. Let's enjoy this famous quatrain together.

The opening sentence of this poem is "two orioles singing green willows", which is very simple and clear. The poet described a beautiful picture in the close-up he saw standing at the window:

This is a photo of Zhang Zaochun. On the newly sprouted willow tree in front of the window, there are two orioles singing happily. In the first word of the first sentence in the poem, the poet uses the number "two" and the word "one" to indicate a slight movement of the head and neck and a slight gaze.

Here, the poet uses "a" rather than "only" to describe the state of the oriole bird, but uses a sense of language to express that the oriole bird seen by the poet is a kind of dynamic. The key word here is "ge". The word "ge" is a conjunction, and the tone expressed by double tones has the meaning of surprise. The poet used "ge" to tell the reader that it was the chirping of the oriole that attracted his attention. One, two, oh, here's a bird. And if you use "only" here, the state of the bird is different. The two orioles in the poem go up and down on the branch instead of standing side by side on a branch, because the word "song" of a singing willow behind them indicates the state of birds singing and chasing each other on the branch. One bird is on the beach and the other is on the beach. They are all playing with the fluttering willows.

Why is the bird holding the wicker sideways? This can be known in the sixth word "Cui" in the first sentence.

Willow is the first northern tree species to germinate in spring. When it germinates, it first turns green on the branches, which is called spinning, and then the tender leaves spit out sharp green. At this time, the willow is in its most beautiful state. Scholars and painters often compare the willow tree to a girl in Seeds of Love. Even the willow, the outside of the willow is like a layer of green fog rolling in the crown. Because the thin wicker is light brown with a hint of green, the wicker begins to fade away from the stiff state in winter and become soft.

At present, wicker is mainly used for poetry and painting. Cao Xueqin described this in the funeral of Daiyu in A Dream of Red Mansions: "Wicker elm pods come from wheatgrass, whether peach floats or Li Fei; More like Ge's chorus poem "There is no wind in the pavilion, and the apricot flowers and flutes are hoarse", "Plum blossoms leak spring news, wicker is long, and grass buds are green. I don't feel the frost of the stars and the moon, I miss the time. " (Yan Shu's words) "Lou Yuyueming looks like a memory. Willow is elegant and weak in spring "(article). Du Fu's "The willow next door is weak and curled, just like the waist of fifteen women" describes the soft and windless state of the willow. The poet accurately grasped the state of wicker in spring. At this moment, two orioles caught the wicker flying back and forth with their claws and chirped in the spring breeze. Perhaps the poet was attracted to the window by the chirp of spring.