Meiling blossoms, but Tianshan snow does not bloom.
Snow is full of flowers, and lace is like snow.
Because the wind enters the dance sleeves, the powder is mixed with the dressing table.
The Huns came to Wan Li several times, all in spring.
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When Meiling bloomed, it didn't start to snow in Tianshan Mountain. The snowy place seems to be covered with white plum blossoms, and the edge of the plum blossoms looks like a layer of snow. Because of the wind, pieces of plum blossoms flew into the dancer's wide sleeves, mixed with powder and floated to her daughter's dressing table. The vast and desolate Xiongnu land in Wan Li is shrouded in snow, and it is still unknown whether spring has arrived.
Distinguish and appreciate
This poem is plum blossom in Meiling, which is associated with the distant frontier fortress and still in the cold wind. Suddenly it occurred to me that the flowers in front of me were like snow, and other places were like snow, so the distant space barrier disappeared into illusion. However, when I woke up, I remembered that the recruiter was thousands of miles away. I don't know when spring will come in the ice and snow. The poet started from a small place, delicate and tactfully, but with a change of pen, he described recruiting people from beyond the Great Wall and sublimated the theme of the poem.
Lu's poems make a fuss about the similarity in shape and color between plum blossom and snowflake, and form a strange confusion between the two white worlds with this simple metaphor. It is novel to read and depicts a beautiful and wonderful picture. Although they are confused and can't tell whether it is plum or snow, Mei Xue's world is completely opposite: the Xiongnu region with ice and snow and the graceful Central Plains region.
The word "open" in the poem also plays a pun role: in the north, the snow has not yet "opened", and "open" means "flowering" and "civilized", which means that the border areas of Xiongnu are in a relatively backward situation and have not been civilized by Chinese civilization.