The reason why so many people scoff at this poem is that they don't understand its beauty. The connotation of the simplest poem is conveyed by line drawing. Many people misunderstand this poem and think that the last four repeated sentences are meaningless. In fact, this is a rhetorical device called intertextuality. Intertextuality is a rhetorical device, which expresses a complete sentence through contextual meaning, intertwining and infiltration. The upper and lower sentences or two parts of a sentence seem to say two things, but in fact they echo each other, complement each other and say the same thing.
In fact, this ancient poem is very interesting and good. As we all know, the ancients began to write poems from the Qin Dynasty, and the Book of Songs is the most famous representative. Later, in the Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty, poetry was endowed with new connotations on the basis of the pre-Qin period, among which Yuefu folk songs were the most unique representatives.
This Jiangnan poem uses many repeated sentence patterns, which makes the folk song very simple and describes the beauty of picking lotus in Jiangnan just right. Folk songs are lively and active. After reading this poem, we seem to be in a lotus field in the south of the Yangtze River. It seems that you can still see people coming and going, wearing fish, and people laughing happily next to you.
I can't help but think of a modern poem with the same effect as this one: pyramids, the tips of one, two, three and three pyramids are all arranged along the Nile. Is it high, low and low along the Nile? This is written by Mr. Guo Moruo, a famous modern writer in China. Although there are only three short sentences, there is nothing special on the surface. But this poem uses the same technique as Jiangnan, with simple words and the purest reading.