What does this sentence mean, "Phoenix spreads its wings and flies high with its flag"? Qu Yuan's Li Sao

Phoenix's colorful feathers are connected with colorful flags, flying high in the sky at will. ?

Lisao is a poem written by Qu Yuan, a poet in China during the Warring States Period, and it is also the longest lyric poem in ancient China. This poem centers on the poet's life experience, experience and mental journey. The whole poem uses the metaphor of beauty and vanilla, a large number of myths and legends and rich imagination, forming a gorgeous literary talent and magnificent structure, showing a positive romantic spirit.

The whole poem (excerpt) is as follows:

The dynasty began in Tianjin and reached the west pole in the evening. Phoenix spreads its wings and flies high with its flag.

Suddenly, I walked in this quicksand and followed Chishui. The dragon was called to make Liang Jinxi, and Sidi was called to make him.

The translation is as follows:

Depart from the ferry of Tianhe in the morning and arrive at the farthest west in the evening. Phoenix spreads its wings and holds the flag, soaring rhythmically up and down in the sky.

Suddenly I came to this quicksand area and had to March slowly along Chishui. Command the dragon transition, command Sidi to cross me to the other side.

Extended data:

As a masterpiece, Li Sao is extremely rich in ideological content, which can be summarized into two aspects. One is to describe the contradiction between poets and dynasty rulers, that is, the opposition between ideal and reality; The second is to describe the pain and entanglement of the poet's mind, that is, the contradiction between enterprising and retiring. ?

The theme of the whole poem, that is, by describing the poet's life struggling for lofty ideals, strongly expresses his anguish and contradictory feelings of being killed, his spirit of dedication to the country, his deep patriotism and sympathy for the people, and his indomitable struggle spirit of bravely pursuing truth and light and upholding justice and ideals;

At the same time, it profoundly exposed the decadent and dark nature of the noble group of Chu headed by Chu Jun, and criticized their crimes of reversing right and wrong, running a private party, harming talents and doing evil for the country.

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