From: On the Pool by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Original text:
A child propped up the boat and secretly picked the white lotus back.
He didn't know how to hide the trail. The duckweed on the water left a boat on the trail.
A child is holding a boat and secretly picking white lotus. He didn't know how to hide the trace. A boat crossed the duckweed on the water. Duckweed: an aquatic plant with oval leaves floating on the water, fibrous roots under the leaves and white flowers in summer.
Extended data:
Creation background of "On the Pool":
According to the collation of Bai Juyi's poems, this poem was written in the ninth year of Daiwa (835), when Prince Shaofu was building his capital in Luoyang. One day when I was swimming by the pool, I saw Shanxiaowa punting, so I wrote this group of poems.
In the poem, the poet narrated a little thing in a little doll's life, accurately captured the little doll's instant mood and drew a picture of picking lotus flowers. In the summer when the lotus is in full bloom, innocent and lively children paddle boats and secretly go to the pool to pick Bai Lianhua to play. I picked the lotus in high spirits and forgot to leave quietly without telling the adults. I didn't know and didn't expect to hide my tracks. I came back with my boat swaggering, and the boat gently shook the duckweed on the water, leaving clear and obvious traces of the waterway.
The poet described the little doll in his poems with his unique popular style, which was very lovely and amiable. The whole poem is like vernacular, full of charm.