Poetry is a treasure of traditional culture and is deeply loved by everyone. There are a lot of rhetorical devices in poetry, such as exaggeration and metaphor, and the "homophonic stalk" loved by netizens is also reflected in poetry.
Midnight Song: When I first wanted to know Lang, my two hearts were as one. If you put silk into the machine, you will not realize it.
"Midnight Song" is a folk song of the Southern Dynasties during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It mostly tells the story of love, and its wording is simple and moving. This poem expresses a woman's pursuit of love with the aid of weaving.
A woman knows her lover in the hope that her two hearts will be as one and they will be matched. Therefore, the horse of the cloth becomes a matching horse, and the silk of the silk thread becomes the "thinking" of missing, which is homophonic and pun-like, and the true feelings are moving.
"Old Man": My lover went away for two or three years, and yesterday the book came to make an appointment to come to our door today. Break the old walnut with a knife, and you will see the old benevolence in an instant.
This poem is also a folk song of the Ming Dynasty. We see that the meaning of this poem is straightforward, that is, the old lovers will meet again. If it is a metrical poem, the first two sentences should be said, and the last two sentences should not have been said. But folk songs should be popular, that is, they should conform to the mood.
The woman is so excited that she has to shout, "I'm going to meet my old lover soon, so happy!" But she didn't understand shouting, so she took an old walnut to pretend that "old benevolence" was a homophonic pun on "old people", which was also interesting. This is the talent of ordinary people, this is the culture of ordinary people, and it is not inferior to professional poets.