What is the function of bi xing technique in poetry?

Bixing is the traditional expression of China's poetry. In the Song Dynasty, Zhu regarded Bixing as an expression to explain its basic characteristics. He thinks: "If you compare, you should compare with other things"; "If you are excited, you should say something else first to arouse the words you are reciting." Generally speaking, comparison is a metaphor, a metaphor that visualizes people or things, making its characteristics more distinct and prominent. Some poems are partial comparisons, and some are overall image comparisons, just like poems describing objects in later generations; "Xing" means rising, that is, using other things as the starting point of poetry to arouse the content to be praised. Some "Xing" has the dual functions of origin and metaphor, so the word "Bi Xing" is often used to refer to the meaning of poetry.

Bixing technique first appeared in The Book of Songs. The first chapter of Guanju has "Guanju dove, in Hezhou." In the sentence "My Fair Lady, Gentleman is Good", a lady is a good spouse of a gentleman and sings harmoniously with the birds on the river. There is a certain meaning and atmosphere between them, which is close to comparison. Another example is the third chapter of "Self-protection", which starts from the traditional Bi Xing and writes that "Mulberry leaves are flourishing before they fall". It first depicts its youth with lush mulberry trees, and then compares the attractive mulberry to intoxicating love, compares the girl in love to a greedy and happy bird, and earnestly warns: Don't indulge in love.

Many descendants used comparative techniques in their writing. For example, "Peacock flies southeast" begins with "Peacock flies southeast, drifting five miles", which stimulates readers' imagination with concrete images, and people can't help but think of the separation of husband and wife and the love of beautiful birds, thus casting a tragic atmosphere on the whole poem and playing a role in controlling the whole poem, resulting in the following story. Another example is "Returning to the Garden", which compares itself to "birds love the old forest and pond fish miss the old garden" to show the poet's feelings of hating officialdom and returning to nature. There are also single sentences that do not use metaphor, but contrast the overall image, such as Altair. The whole poem uses the folk story that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl face each other across the river and can't meet again to describe the lovesickness of a sad young woman, which is implicit and sad.

In a word, the application of Bixing technique has enhanced the vividness and distinctiveness of ancient poetry, increased the charm and image appeal of ancient poetry, and made China's ancient poetry always exude charming artistic charm.