Jiangnan
Han Yuefu
You can pick lotuses in the south of the Yangtze River. There are fields of lotus leaves and fish playing among the lotus leaves.
The lotus leaves are to the east, the lotus leaves are to the west, the lotus leaves are to the south, and the lotus leaves are to the north.
This poem comes from the Yuefu of the Han Dynasty and was collected and compiled by Guo Maoqian of the Song Dynasty
He: How
Tian Tian: The way the lotus leaves grow lush and connected.
You can pick lotus flowers on the water in the south of the Yangtze River. The lotus leaves are so lush and the fish are playing among them.
The fish plays on the east side of the lotus leaf, the fish plays on the west side of the lotus leaf, the fish plays on the south side of the lotus leaf, and the fish plays on the north side of the lotus leaf.
"Jiangnan" is a Yuefu poem from the Han Dynasty. This is a folk song that sings about the happy scene of the working people in Jiangnan picking lotus flowers. The first three sentences highlight the season, occasion and location of lotus picking; the last four sentences describe the scene of fish playing. The whole poem uses metaphors and repeated rhetorical techniques to describe the beautiful artistic conception of picking lotus in the south of the Yangtze River.