From Li Bai's "After the chaos in the Tang Dynasty, Tian En Liu Yelang recalled the past and gave books to Jiang as a prefect and a good butcher", which means that it is like a hibiscus out of water, as it exists in nature, without any traces of carving and polishing.
This sentence expresses the poet's view on poetry, advocating pure beauty and nature-this is the article style advocated and pursued by Li Bai, and opposes decoration and carving. Later generations often use it to describe literary works as fresh and natural as water hibiscus.
"Clear water produces hibiscus, carved naturally" is a fresh, natural and unpretentious style of writing, which means that the article expresses the author's thoughts and feelings in natural and simple words without any rhetoric. In reality, many people like flashy words and difficult words, but ignore the concise and lively expression of natural carving.
Creation background
This poem is an autobiographical poem written by Li Bai when he was stranded in Jiangxia in 760 AD (the first year of Shangyuan in Tang Suzong) (according to this poem, wang pu, Zhan Pu, Wang Zengpu, An Pu, Yu Ben and An Ben were written in 759 AD, and Pu Huang and Pei Pu were written in 760 AD). The poet was exiled to Yelang because of the defeat of the eternal king, and was forgiven halfway. This poem was written after he was pardoned.
At this time, when I met an old friend like Wei Liangzai, Li Bai's feelings were of course deep. The strongest of them is that he changed from an old singer to a rogue, while the other party changed from an ordinary magistrate to a famous place. One of the primary reasons is that Wei Liangzai made a different choice from Li Bai in the turmoil.
Facing his old friends, Li Bai not only described the whole story of their communication, but also told them that he went north to Youzhou to explore the truth of the Anshi Rebellion before the turmoil. This is the same reason as the following interpretation of the curtain of the eternal king, and it is also to eliminate the misunderstanding of old friends and show their innocence in political attitude.