First, the source of the sentence "two purple swallows bite the mud, and a few wasps teach honey":
From: The Enlightenment of Melody by Che in Qing Dynasty.
Spring is summer, autumn is winter, and dusk drum is morning bell. Seeing mountains is for playing with water, and bamboo is for pine trees. Feng Fuhu, Ye Gonglong and butterfly dancers are singing in pairs. Double purple swallows bring mud, and several wasps bring honey. In spring, Yingying is just right in the garden, and in autumn, the geese are harmonious outside the Great Wall. Qin Lingyun Cross, 8,000 miles all the way; Wushan is washed by rain, and there are twelve dangerous peaks.
Translation:
Spring versus summer; Autumn versus winter; At night, it is a dusk drum, and in the morning, it is a morning bell. Going outside is to go up the mountain to see the mountains and play with water; Pine refers to Lan Song, and green bamboo refers to pine. Feng Fu was a woman who was good at fighting tigers in Jin Dynasty. Ye Gong likes dragons, and the room is full of pictures of dragons. Sting refers to crickets, crickets are chirping and butterflies are jumping.
Two swallows gnawed mud on the wall to build a nest; Several wasps are collecting honey. In the sunny garden in spring, orioles are singing, and in autumn, geese are singing in the sky outside the Great Wall. How long is the winding mountain road in Qinling Mountains? Wushan Mountain is magnificent, with many steep peaks.
Second, the phrase "two purple swallows in the mud and a few wasps in the honey class" uses the allusion of "honey class":
The significance of honey teaching: collecting honey.
Source: Jin Yuanzhang asked? Give Zhang Lianshi a rest.
I don't know who will sit at the banquet in the forest, and the wild deer will teach honey with flowers.
Entertain guests in nature, wild deer gently hold wild flowers, and bees are busy collecting honey.
Expand the meaning of "temperament enlightenment" material;
The enlightenment of rhythm is the enlightenment reading for training children to cope with and master rhythm. According to rhyme, it includes astronomy, geography, flowers and trees, birds and beasts, figures and artifacts. From single word pairs to double word pairs, three word pairs, five word pairs, seven word pairs to eleven word pairs, phonology is harmonious and catchy, from which pronunciation, vocabulary and rhetoric training are obtained.
From single words to multiple words, it reads like singing. Compared with other three-character and four-sentence structures, it is more attractive. This kind of reading is unique and enduring in the enlightenment reading. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, books such as Dream-seeking Parallel Sentences and Liweng Duiyun have been written in this way and have been widely circulated.
Poetry couplets are an important literary form in ancient China. They have been handed down from generation to generation for more than 2,000 years and still have strong vitality. In ancient times, the cultivation of this kind of literary accomplishment began from childhood in private schools, and there were strict requirements for tone, temperament and meter.
Therefore, some works on temperament came into being, among which the Enlightenment of Temperament by Che in the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty was a representative one.
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