The poem Jiangnan expresses the author's admiration for the working people in Jiangnan. It is a Yuefu poem in the Han Dynasty, which mainly describes the cheerful and lively scene during the lotus picking period in the south of the Yangtze River. The picture of fish playing happily in the poem seems to be a scene in which men and women picking lotus flowers play and frolic.
The original poem is as follows:
South of the Yangtze river
Author: anonymous
Lotus can be picked in Jiangnan, so there is no lotus leaf. Fish are frolicking among the lotus leaves.
Fish hits the lotus leaf east, fish hits the lotus leaf west, fish hits the lotus leaf south, and fish hits the lotus leaf north.