Note: ① Yaoyao: youthful and vigorous.
2 burning: the appearance of flowers in full bloom.
3 flowers: flowers.
Background:
Yao Tao, from The Book of Songs, National Style and Nan Zhou, is a wedding song, that is, a song to send the bride. On the wedding day, the bridesmaid sent the bride out, and everyone walked around the bride to the groom's house, singing: "Peach blossoms wither and burn its glory …" The red peach blossoms are more beautiful than the bride's beautiful appearance. How can the family be unhappy when they marry such a girl? Peach trees full of fruits are a metaphor that the bride will have more children for her husband's family (the old idea of having more children and more happiness), so that the husband's family can prosper.
Appreciate:
Peach trees with dense branches and leaves will make the family prosperous forever. Throughout, red peach blossoms, plump and delicious peach fruits and lush peach leaves are used to compare the beautiful youth of newlyweds, wishing their love as beautiful as peach blossoms and as evergreen as peach trees. This poem adopts the method of overlapping chapters and sentences, and each chapter has the same structure, only replacing a few words, so it is repeatedly praised and lingering; Beautiful words are integrated with the beauty of the bride and the joy of love, which very aptly renders the festive atmosphere of the wedding.
It is said that after the Revolution of 1911, when some villages held weddings, they also sang "Three Chapters of Yao Tao", which shows that this is a wedding poem that has been passed down through the ages. So far, many places have sung hymns at weddings, and the content is roughly the same as that of Yao Tao. In Guangzhou, the author saw some newlyweds with banners of "My son returns home", which were also taken from The Peach Blossom Garden. People often say "Peach Blossom Luck" comes from this poem.