(6) What is a quatrain (short canopy in the middle of ancient wood)?

"Old trees cover short eaves, and the staff helps me cross the bridge east. The clothes are wet with apricot flowers and rain, and the face is not cold. " The quatrains from the Southern Song Dynasty monk Zhinan have the following meanings:

Note: 1. Short-covered boat. The canopy is a sail. The name of the ship. 2. Chenopodium album-the inverted version of Chenopodium album. Chenopodium album is an annual plant with erect stems, which can be used as crutches for elders.

This little poem describes the poet's pleasure in walking with crutches in the breeze and drizzle. The poet went for a spring outing with a stick, saying that "the stick helped me" and personified the stick, as if it were a reliable playmate, helping others to move forward silently, giving people a sense of intimacy and security, which greatly increased the old monk's interest, happily crossing the bridge and heading east. The scenery of Qiaodong and Qiaoxi may not be very different, but for poets who travel in spring, the artistic conception and interest are quite different from east to west. "East" is sometimes synonymous with "spring". For example, the god of spring is called Dong Jun, and the east wind refers to the spring breeze. The poet crossed the bridge to the east, just as the east wind was blowing. No matter going west, north or south, there is no such poetry. The last two sentences of the poem are particularly wonderful: "apricot blossom rain", early spring rain "willow wind" and early spring wind. This is more beautiful and picturesque than "drizzle" and "breeze" Yang Liuzhi is rippling with the wind, giving people the feeling that the spring breeze comes from willows. The rain in early spring is called "apricot blossom rain", which is exactly the same as the rain in early summer called "Huang Meiyu". "The small building listens to the spring rain all night, and the deep alley sells apricot flowers." In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the great poet Lu You once associated apricot flowers with spring rain. "I want to get wet with my clothes", and the drizzle in early spring is described by clothes that seem wet but not wet, which seems to be absent, and the observation is more subtle and the description is more delicate. Imagine the poet walking eastward with a stick, burning red apricots, dancing with green willows and drizzling clothes, as if wet but not wet, and the wind blowing head-on, without feeling a chill. What an impatient and pleasant spring outing! Some people can't help but feel that the old monk keeps going forward and enjoys himself. When he thinks about going home, he is afraid that he will be exhausted and even hold him still. Don't worry too much. The first sentence of the poem says: "The shade of ancient wood is short." Isn't the short canopy a boat? The old monk came by boat along the stream, and the boat was under the old tree by the stream, waiting for him to untie it and return to the temple.