What do you mean, a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water?

It means: I advise you not to chase things that look good but are illusory and unattainable. If you persist, it will make you crazy, which is what Buddhists call demons, which will produce demons.

Interpretation: "A flower blooms in the mirror and seems too good to get" means that a flower blooms in the mirror and looks good, but it will never belong to you. Here, the flower in the mirror represents something that looks beautiful, but it is illusory and unattainable.

"I advise you not to think about the flower in the mirror, you will be crazy in this life" is to advise you not to think about picking that flower. If you have to pick that flower in the mirror, you will go crazy. This is an exhortation not to pursue illusory things.

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1, hidden in the mirror

Commentary: Flowers in the mirror, Moon in the water. Originally refers to the flexible and unpredictable artistic conception in poetry, and later refers to the illusory scene.

Source: He Qifang's Dream Road: I like that kind of sharpening, that kind of color coordination, that kind of mirror.

2. Water features and flowers

Explanation: The moon in the water is a flower in the mirror. Metaphor is illusory.

Source: Xie Ming Zhen's "Four Poems" Volume 1: "Poetry is solvable, unsolvable, and does not need to be solved. If you hide in the mirror, don't obscure it. "

No matter the language, words and articles of the poem, it stops at one point, that is, natural understanding. If poetry is solvable, why pursue it too much? If there is no solution, why care too much?