What do you mean, "there are almonds outside the wall"

"An apricot is out of the wall" means that a branch of a blooming apricot tree is out of the wall.

From: The Garden Duty by Ye Shaoweng in Song Dynasty.

Original text:

Perhaps my master was worried that my wooden shoes trampled his precious moss and tapped Chai Men lightly, but no one opened it for a long time.

But this spring spring, after all, can't be caged. Look, there is a pink apricot sticking out of the wall.

Maybe the owner of the yard loves moss and is afraid that my wooden shoes will leave footprints on it. He tapped Chai Men, but no one answered the door for a long time. Chai Men can't keep the spring scenery in the garden, and the red apricots are out of the wall.

Extended data:

It is disappointing that the poet is thinking and wandering outside the garden. When he was helpless and ready to leave, he looked up and suddenly saw a beautiful red apricot flower in full bloom on the wall sticking its head out to greet people. The poet thought happily, ah! The spring scenery in the garden has overflowed the walls. No matter how tightly your master closes the garden door, you can't close it! "Spring Garden can't be closed, and an apricot is out of the wall."

From a blooming apricot flower, the poet can appreciate the vibrant spring scenery in the garden and feel the gorgeous spring scenery all over the sky. Finally, I'm glad you came. But later readers were not satisfied with this, but endowed these two poems with the philosophy of life according to their own wishes: new things will definitely break through many difficulties, stand out and flourish.

These two poems have been reborn and circulated endlessly. It doesn't matter whether the play meets the poet's wishes. Because poetry appreciation is also an artistic creation, readers might as well rely on their own life experience and artistic interest to expand the artistic conception of poetry and enrich its meaning, or use concrete symbols to describe poetry.

For this phenomenon, poetic theorists say: "If the author is not inevitable, why should the reader be otherwise?" The reader's understanding is actually sometimes better than the author's.

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