Why are lotus flowers as beautiful and hazy as "dreams"?

Milk is not a metaphor, so there is no ontology; Dreams are metaphors, and ontologies are "leaves and flowers".

Another noumenon of this sentence is the "white opacity" of "leaves and flowers", which is hidden and compared with gauze. The former's "as if" is not a metaphor, while the latter compares the opaque white of "leaves and flowers" washed in white milk to a veil, and compares leaves and flowers to dreams.

If the whole sentence is unfolded, it is: leaves and flowers are as white as washed in milk, but opaque, as beautiful and hazy as veiled dreams. Or we can understand it this way and shorten this sentence: "Leaves and flowers are like dreams", so that the ontological metaphor is very clear.

Therefore, this sentence has two metaphors. One is "leaves and flowers", which is a metaphor for dreams; One is the hidden "opaque white", which is a metaphor for gauze.

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Writing background

Moonlight on the Lotus Pond was written in July 1927. The Great Revolution failed and white terror enveloped the land of China. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek rebelled against the revolution, and China was in darkness. As a "pawn of the great era", Zhu Ziqing has been shouting and struggling, but after the April 12th coup, he moved from the "cross street" of struggle to the "ivory tower" of classical literature.

But the author can't join the army and take up a gun to go to the revolution, but he can't quell his dissatisfaction and hatred of the dark reality. The author is confused and contradictory about life, depressed inside, and can't be calm all the time. So the author wrote this article.

Through the description of the scenery of the lotus pond on a lonely moonlit night, this paper reveals the author's complex mood of pursuing peace but not getting peace, and dreaming beyond reality but not getting rid of peace, which is the reflection of that dark age in the author's mind.

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