Swallows come to nest.
Come and go to choose each other's perch, and suddenly go up and down with the same mud. The void hall is to remove the curtain, and the auspicious day is to remove thistle [jí] quinoa [lí]. The piano table is swept frequently, and the dream of sleeping on the bed is repeated repeatedly. The aftertaste is not a sleeping duck, and the whisper may be used to talk about chicken. The new chick Xi feather mother is the guide, and the milk eagle [kòu] falls into the nest and the ladder. Mao Qian [gān] did not fly away, and the Dong family chicken and dog did not have a good eye [kuí].
Interpretation: The poem was written in the summer of the 31st year of Qianlong, when the poet was 42 years old and lived in Nanjing after resigning.
The first two sentences mean that two swallows come to the house, and they fly around to find shelter, and fly up and down to build a nest in the mud.
Three or four sentences of "virtual hall" refer to a spacious hall. "Wuji" refers to the day of the month and the day of the day, which was considered to be an auspicious day in ancient times. It is said that swallows do not build nests in mud on this day, Jin Zhanghua's "Naturalist Chronicles": "Yan Wuji does not paint the nest in mud on the day, this is not intelligence, and it is natural." Jin Gehong's "Hug Puzi Zhili": "There is a bias in the occasional situation, the crane knows the middle of the night, and the swallow knows himself, but he may not reach other things." Tribulus terrestris is an annual herbaceous plant that belongs to the weeds in the garden. The three or four sentences mean that in order to make it easier for you to enter and exit, I have removed the curtain of the hall, and in order not to affect your mud, I only choose such a day as Wuji to go to the garden to weed.
Five or six sentences mean, I am lazy, I don't want to clean the fallen flowers on the piano table frequently, I sleep soundly on the couch, so please don't keep calling to disturb my dreams.
Seven or eight sentences of "residual incense" unburned incense, when the ancients tasted tea, read, stroked the qin, and meditated, they often burned incense to calm the mind and enjoy their feelings, and when friends visited, when they talked, adding incense to the smoker was also the basic etiquette in ancient times. "Sleeping duck" is a kind of incense burner in ancient times, made of copper, like a lying duck, hence the name. "Talking about chickens" Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasty Song Dynasty "Youminglu" contains: "Jin Yanzhou Thorn History Song Chuzong, try to buy a long singing chicken, love to raise even, always cage between the windows, the chicken as a human language, and the sect to talk, very eloquent, all day long. As a result, the Sect has made great progress. Later, the word "talking chicken" refers to a chicken that can be talked to. Tang Qian started the poem "Autumn Night": "Ask the chicken in the window, when will the long night end?."At this time, the swallow's whisper can be regarded as talking to me, which is similar to the Song Chuzong's "talking about chicken" back then.
Ninety sentences of "Xi Yu" refer to the test flight of the chicks. "Suckling eagles" are young birds fed by the mother. These two sentences mean that the mother swallow taught the little swallow to test fly, and the little swallow fell under the nest and couldn't fly, so I took a ladder and put the little swallow back into the nest.
The last two sentences "hairy" mean that the feathers have dried. "Dong Family Chicken Dog" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty Sixteen Kingdoms, the former Qin Shangshu's right servant shot Dong Rong and the lord of the government, Sima Wang deciphered him as a chicken dog, disdained to talk to Dong, and later generations used it as an allusion to reprimand the power traitor. "Obedient" deviation. These two sentences mean that although the feathers are dry, they can't fly away immediately, and those "Dong family chickens and dogs" don't have any crooked ideas and do things that betray righteousness!
This poem expresses the poet's love and love for the swallow. You can tear down the curtain for it, weed for it, the good dream is disturbed is just a strange thing, when the interest comes, and the swallow's murmur is regarded as a chat between friends, the swallow falls, climbs the ladder to send it back to the nest, and when the test flight, it is necessary to guard against chickens and dogs for the milk swallow. The swallow is a mascot, and with the company of the swallow, the poet is in a happy mood, and life has added a lot of color.