Write a poem and say why you like it

1. Poetry:

Inscribed on Nanzhuang of the Capital City

Cui Hu

On this day last year, in this gate, the faces of the people and the peach blossoms reflected each other's red.

I don’t know where the human face is, but the peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze.

2. Reasons for liking it:

There are four lines in the poem. These four lines contain two scenes that are the same and reflect each other.

The first scene: Seeking Spring and Encountering Beauty - "On this day last year, in this door, the faces of people and peach blossoms reflected each other's red." The poet captured the most beautiful and moving scene in the whole process of "Looking for Spring and Encountering Beauty" . "The peach blossoms on the human face reflect each other's red" not only sets a beautiful background for the peach blossom-like "human face" and highlights the girl's radiant face, but also implicitly expresses the poet's gaze and emotion, and The scene where both parties are affectionate and have no words to communicate with each other.

The second scene: missing again. It is still the season of brilliant spring and blooming flowers, and it is still the doorway covered with sparse flowers and trees and peach trees. However, the "human face" that adds splendor to all this is nowhere to be found. Only a peach blossom tree in front of the door is still blooming in the spring breeze. Zhong Ningqing smiled. The association of peach blossoms smiling in the spring breeze comes from the phrase "human faces and peach blossoms reflect each other's red". Last year on this day, the girl I met unexpectedly while standing under the peach tree must have been staring at her with a smile and affection. Now, the face is blank, and the peach blossoms still smiling can only trigger the good memories of the past and the fact that good times do not last forever. With emotion. The word "still" contains infinite regret.

The whole poem actually uses "human face" and "peach blossom" as running clues. Through the reflection and contrast of "last year" and "today" at the same time in the same place and scenery but with "different people", the poet's reason for The emotions generated by these two different encounters are expressed in a roundabout and tortuous way. Contrast and reflection play an extremely important role in this poem. Because we are writing about lost beautiful things in our memories, the memories are particularly precious, beautiful, and full of emotions. This is why we have the vivid depiction of "human faces and peach blossoms reflecting each other's red"; it is precisely because of such beautiful memories that we especially feel the loss of beautiful things. The melancholy of things leads to the feeling of "I don't know where the human face is going, but the peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze".

Although this poem has a certain plot, legendary "ability", and even drama, it is not a short narrative poem, but a lyric poem. "Capability" may help it spread widely, but its typical significance lies in describing a certain life experience rather than telling a story that people are interested in. It explains a universal life experience: encountering something beautiful by chance or inadvertently, but when you pursue it intentionally, you can never get it again. This may be one of the reasons why this poem maintains its enduring artistic vitality.