Inheritance and Expansion of Hemerocallis Fulva Imagery in Tang Poetry
The earliest poem describing Hemerocallis fulva is"Boxi"in The Book of Songs,and Hemerocallis fulva possesses the original connotation of forgetting worries.The imagery of Hemerocallis fulva appears widely in poetry,and the literati of the Tang Dynasty created a large number of poems related to Hemerocallis fulva and inno-vatively developed and integrated the connotation of Hemerocallis imagery.In addition to the connotation of"forget-ting worries",Hemerocallis fulva in the poetry of the Tang Dynasty also expands the meaning of the homesickness of the wanderer based on reference of the mother with Hemerocallis fulva.At the same time,the poetry of the Tang Dynasty also pays attention to the excavation of the shape and charac-ter of Hemerocallis fulva plants.Thus,the imagery of Hemerocallis fulva has become a poetic imagery with multiple meanings such as forgetting worries,wanderer's missing of mother,and depicting the plant's characteristics.
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