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Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, come in the middle of the night, and go in the morning.
How long has it been like a spring dream?It seems that there is nowhere to find the clouds.
Reciting this poem "Flowers Are Not Flowers", whether you understand its meaning or not, will give birth to a sense of beauty from the bottom of your heart. This is a hazy beauty, ethereal beauty, and its long and short sentences are full of ****, which makes people have a beautiful feeling like singing.
What exactly is the psalmist trying to express?What kind of emotions does he convey in his poems?I believe that everyone will have their own unique interpretation of this poem.
Pessimistic people will feel inexplicable sadness in their hearts when they read it. He may be sad that the beautiful things in the world come and go in a hurry and are difficult to stay, or he may be sad that beautiful people are difficult to find and elusive, and he may be sad that a beautiful relationship is drifting away.
Optimistic people will read it and their hearts will be filled with joy. He has been here for the good things, beautiful people and beautiful emotions in the world, and he has been happy for what he has.
Bai Juyi's poems have always been easy to read, and the artistic conception is clear. However, the poem "Flowers Are Not Flowers" is like a beautiful painting covered with a veil, hazy, real and illusory, like flowers and fog, making people unpredictable. I can't see clearly, I can't distinguish clearly, but I love it and never get tired of reading it.
There are currently two accepted mainstream interpretations of the poem.
The first is that the poet is expressing a feeling of life. Life is different in everyone's eyes, so what is life like in the eyes of poets?
First of all, it is like a flower and a fog, dreamlike, and a bubble.
Secondly, it comes in the middle of the night and leaves at dawn, which is short and hurried.
Third, it comes like a spring dream and goes like a morning cloud, which is beautiful and memorable.
Fourth, after it leaves, it is impossible to find it, which is melancholy and sad.
How can such a life not make the poet feel so emotional?
The second mainstream interpretation is that the poet is expressing his remembrance of a beautiful person or thing. Since it is remembrance, it means that the person or thing has now left and disappeared. They have been in the life of the poet, they have existed, and they are very beautiful. Because of the beauty, the poet is extremely nostalgic and sad for their departure.
There is also a saying that "Flowers Are Not Flowers" is a Buddhist proposition. This proposition expresses a Zen principle that everything is empty. In other words, everything in the world is an illusion and nothingness. And what Bai Juyi expresses in his poems is the Zen principles of Buddhism. In short, this is a Zen poem that expresses the feelings of Buddhism.
In short, as mentioned earlier, everyone who recites this poem will have their own unique interpretation, but no matter how you interpret it, it is difficult to hide its ethereal and hazy characteristics, which is inexhaustible.