What does "Dongli" often appear in ancient poems mean? Why do poets love to use it?

The first poem that appeared was Tao Yuanming's poem "See Nanshan leisurely under the hedge of picking chrysanthemums."

The fifth part drinking (gold) Tao Yuanming

Building a house is human, and there are no horses and chariots.

What can you do? The heart is far from being self-centered.

See Nanshan leisurely under the east fence of chrysanthemum picking.

The mountains are getting better and better, and the birds are back.

That makes sense. I forgot what I wanted to say.

Dongli here refers to the fence wall in the east, that is, the garden surrounded by branches, bamboo poles and reeds. And it's a chrysanthemum garden, so why Dongli instead of Xili, Li Nan or Beili? Because at that time, the place where the sun rose from the east was sunny and energetic. It might not be a plain, but it was the east at that time. This poem also mentions "leisurely seeing Nanshan". Of course, Nanshan is sunny and the crops planted in Nanshan are better. There are pure natural scenery and a quiet and peaceful idyllic life here, which is in line with the scene and true portrayal of Tao Yuanming's seclusion at that time.

Among poets in the late Tang and Song Dynasties and poets in the Qing Dynasty, when they were frustrated, most of them liked romantic life to relieve their depression, so many poets borrowed the word "Dongli", which became a fixed format from now on, that is, as a concrete expression of environmental artistic conception, and became popular in the future.

And Bai Juyi's Drinking Alone on September 9th.

There are some old orchestras in front of the green statue next to the yellow flowers.

On the ninth day of leap autumn, Dongli drank alone.

I haven't been drunk for 15 years since I fasted in September.

Here Bai Juyi wrote Dongli, looking for a quiet living environment to escape from the cold world when life is down and out. I want to be a hermit here and live a clean and comfortable life.

Basically, all the great poets in the Tang Dynasty used this classic. For example, Du Fu's "Guan Dong Hedgehog Chrysanthemum, Talking about South Sorrow." Cen Can's "In order to report the full chrysanthemum, the string tube is drunk in Dongli." Gao Shi "is frightened by what is happening, and the east fence is empty." It can be said that this image has been popularized among scholars in the Tang Dynasty.

The east hedge here in Gao Shi is only a visual expression. Through the description of the east hedge of chrysanthemum, the author's grief and indignation are expressed. In this solar term, he marveled that his hair had turned white long ago, but the chrysanthemums in Dongli had not yet opened.

Drunken flowers, dense fog, clouds and eternal sadness

Li Qingzhao's songs

The fog is thick and the clouds are light, and it will always be sad. The mind is refreshed and the golden beast disappears. The festival is also a double ninth festival, and the jade pillow gauze kitchen is half cold at night.

Dongli drinks until dusk, and faint chrysanthemum fragrance overflows his sleeves. Mo Tao doesn't forget me, the curtain rolls west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers.

Li Qingzhao's first word, "Dongli" here is not to enjoy chrysanthemums, but to drink chrysanthemum wine? Here, it is just right to drown one's sorrows by drinking and relieve loneliness and sadness in one's heart. This kind of lonely lovesickness is sad, touching, fresh and refined.

In ancient poetry, Dongli refers to chrysanthemum garden. Mostly about chrysanthemums. Some people yearn for rural life. Some elegant people want to live in seclusion. Some people express their feelings and seek spiritual sustenance. Many of them are rhetorical devices of metaphor and metonymy to express literature and art. This makes poetry meaningful, the poet's writing art superb, and expresses the sublimation of the poet's artistic realm. Through the description of images, we can achieve a specific artistic conception that the author wants to express.

In ancient times, Dongli mostly represented chrysanthemums. With the development of history and the changes of the times, many modern poets no longer refer to chrysanthemums alone, but represent a pleasant pastoral life, but a good place for a pleasant garden.