"Jasper makeup into a tree high, hanging green silk sash in ten thousand. I don't know who cut the thin leaves, and the spring breeze in February is like scissors. " What does this poem mean?

Chanting willow is a seven-character quatrain written by He, a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

original text

Jasper dressed as a tree, hanging down ten thousand green silk tapestries.

I don't know who cut the thin leaves, but the spring breeze in February is like scissors.

translate

Tall willows are covered with new green leaves, and soft willows hang down like ten thousand green ribbons fluttering gently.

Whose skillful hand cut off this thin young leaf? It turned out to be the warm spring breeze in February. It's like a pair of clever scissors.

Rhetorical device

The first two sentences are figurative rhetoric, comparing green willow leaves to jasper and willow branches to ribbons. The last two sentences raise the praise of willow to the praise of spring in the form of questions.

interpret

This poem is a poem about objects. The first two sentences of this poem use two new metaphors of beauty to describe the vitality and prosperity of spring willow; The latter two sentences compare the spring breeze to "scissors" more ingeniously, and show the invisible "spring breeze" vividly, which is not only novel in concept, but also full of charm.