What are the interesting metaphors of May Yao Chen?

Mei, Ci, was a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. When the poet was young, he didn't pass the exam. It was not until after middle age that he was given a scholar's background. The official was the foreign minister. In his later years, he participated in the compilation of New Tang Book. According to Ouyang Xiu's Record of Returning to the Field, "Mei wrote" The Book of the Tang Dynasty "in her later years under the name of poetry, and died before she finished playing it." What does Mei think about compiling Tang books? Returning to the Field quoted a wonderful metaphor of Mei Yaochen, who said, "My calligraphy can be described as a cloth bag." This is a visual metaphor, "monkey's cloth bag"-can't move, or "boring" or "not free". An active person can't get out of editing books behind closed doors. Comparing this situation to a "monkey in a bag" is really vivid. According to the record of returning to the field, after listening to this metaphor, Mei's wife, Diao, also made an evaluation of Mei's official career. For example, she said, "If you are an official, why do you want to be a bamboo pole?" The bamboo pole is bare and the catfish is slippery. How can catfish climb the bamboo pole? It's impossible! This metaphor is too vivid. Mrs Diao's metaphor and Mei's metaphor are the antithesis of rhetoric. There is a causal relationship between these two opposing metaphors, that is to say, Mei's revision of the Book of the New Tang Dynasty was stifled, so his career is hopeless.

According to "Poet Jade Scrap", Lu Shilong was appointed as Yizhou, and he liked to make trouble and beat officials and prostitutes, making them all want to escape, but they failed. Just then, a prostitute with good color and art came to Yizhou from Hangzhou. Lv Shilong likes her very much and won't let her leave.

One day, a prostitute made a small mistake, and Lu Shilong wanted to punish her again. The prostitute cried and said, "Adults hit me, and the sisters from Hangzhou are afraid that they will not be at ease."

May Yao Chen knew about it and made a wonderful metaphor. He wrote a poem:

Don't hit the duck, it will scare the mandarin duck.

New, north of Yuanyang Pool,

Not as old as the bald pigeons in Dou Gu.

Bald pigeons still want to fly far away,

Besides, Yuanyang has long wings.

"Duck" and "Yuanyang" are metaphors of prostitutes. The poem implies: don't hit them. When you hit them, they all flew away.

Feng Menglong's History of Laughter in Ming Dynasty had a joke of "Plum Puffer":

Mei has a poem "Puffer": "Spring buds are born in Chunzhou, and flowers are flying on the spring shore. At this time, puffer fish is not expensive. " It is widely circulated. Liu said in a play, "There is a partridge poem called partridge Zheng. Yu Sheng has a puffer fish poem called puffer fish. "

Feng Menglong commented that in the Song Dynasty, Xie Yi had a poem Ode to a Butterfly, which was called "Xie Die" by the world. Huang You's poem Ode to Snowball in Ming Dynasty was called "Yellow Snowball" at that time.

"Plum puffer fish" is a nickname derived from poetry. Nickname is a kind of metonymic rhetoric. "Plum puffer fish" has become a joke because the image of puffer fish is ridiculous. "Xie butterfly" is also a nickname, but it doesn't make people laugh, while "yellow snowball" can make people laugh, because snowballs are white.