What are the cultural meanings of the images of clouds, golden willow and green floating heart in ancient poems?

"Clouds, golden willow, and green floating heart" are three distinctive images in Xu Zhimo's Farewell to Hongqiao. In traditional Chinese culture, these three images condense the heavy human emotion of parting.

Clouds: "Floating clouds and wanderer's thoughts", "Floating clouds travel all day long, and wanderers don't come for a long time", "Life is like a gathering of floating clouds", floating clouds have no roots and drift with the wind, which is the image of a wanderer who is drifting around. The image of the wandering son.

Golden willow: "willow", "stay" homophonic, the ancients had the cultural practice of folding willow to send off. "The golden willow by the river is the bride in the setting sun", although the willow is used to start the mood, but the mood is renovated, unlike "the only thing that is sad is to say goodbye", in which the beauty is more than the sadness.

Green Nympho: "under the court as the water is clear, the water floating heartflies intersect, cover the shadow of bamboo and cypress also", "rhombus Nympho trailing with the double oar", "Nympho haunted, like to stay in love, ducks and gulls bathing. "

It is interesting that these three images were chosen from the air, the ground and the water. It is really a big world, all have feelings, the eye meets the God, into a chapter.

These three images were chosen from the air, the earth and the water.