The Significance of Peach Blossom in China Classical Literature

In The Peach Blossom Garden, the author Tao Yuanming said that after Wu Lingren got lost, he went through a peach blossom forest and entered a paradise with simple folk customs. Later, people also used Taoyuan or Peach Blossom Garden to refer to fairyland on earth or the kind of life people yearned for. In the story, peach blossom is like a door to a fairyland, representing people's hope for a better life.

Peach blossom can also describe the beauty of women. In the poem "Peach Blossoms Set each other off in Red", the author only associates women with peach blossoms, implying that their faces are beautiful. From this, an idiom is derived-the face is like a peach blossom, and there are also peach blossom faces and peach blossom eyes, all of which are beautiful explanations.

There are many flowers that symbolize love, and peach blossoms express love in various ways. Its rhetoric is a captive of love, used to express passion for love, and love is irrational. In the story of A Dream of Red Mansions, Lin Daiyu was also buried, representing her lost love. In addition, peach blossom luck also refers to fate.

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The Meaning of Peach Blossom The ancient poem "National Style, Nan Zhou and Yao Tao"

original work

Peach blossoms are in full bloom, colorful and fiery red. The girl is going to get married and be happy at her husband's house.

Peach blossoms are in full bloom and there are countless fruits. The girl is going to get married, and the heir who gave birth early is going to make a fortune.

Peach blossoms are in full bloom, and green leaves are lush and never fall. The girl is getting married, and Comix is in harmony.

Vernacular translation

Peach blossoms are in full bloom, bright red as fire. The girl is getting married and going back to her husband's house in high spirits. Peach blossoms are in full bloom, and the fruits are heavy, big and sweet. The girl is getting married, having children early and having a prosperous heir. Peach blossoms are in full bloom and green leaves are blooming in the wind. The girl is getting married, and her husband's family is happy and safe.

It is often said that the first person who compares beauty to flowers is a genius, the second is a mediocrity and the third is a fool. The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, so it is no exaggeration to say that it compares beauty with flowers for the first time.

Since then, flowers, especially peach blossoms, have been used to describe beauty in an endless stream. For example, Ruan Ji in Wei and Jin Dynasties wrote in "Before Flowers and Under the Moon": "The flowers of peaches and plums are brilliant."

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