gingkgo

Southern Song Dynasty: Yang Wanli

Dark gray and light fire are slightly worse, and small bitterness is the highest.

Not necessarily a chicken's head looks like a duck's foot, but ginkgo can be a golden peach.

Yang Wanli was the most popular poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. His sincere style is unique, fresh and simple, and quite interesting. Poets love nature and like to observe and think carefully and deeply, which makes their works spread for a long time and praised by later readers.

Comment and analysis

This seven-line poem praising Ginkgo biloba has a beautiful artistic conception and a detailed and vivid description. As can be seen from the first two sentences of the poem, the poet has a lot of research on health preservation. He buried the ginkgo fruit in charcoal ash and baked it with fire, so he could taste it. Although it is a little bitter, you can taste a little sweet if you chew it slowly.

The last two sentences of this poem are written in a contrasting way. The poet compares Ginkgo biloba to aquatic Euryales and peaches on trees. Euryale ferox is an aquatic herb, which can be cooked with red beans and red dates. Duck feet in the poem refer to ginkgo fruit. The poet tasted the taste of Xiantao from ginkgo fruit.

Ginkgo biloba is a common fruit, because few people like to eat it because of its bitter taste, but the poet is good at cooking and makes a different taste with a special baking method. It can be seen that poets love life and cooking habits. This poem praises the good taste of ginkgo fruit and ginkgo tree, because ginkgo fruit is the fruit of ginkgo tree. The poet compared several foods and tasted the special taste of ginkgo fruit.