This poem is from Yuefu poetry anthology of Han Dynasty, and the author is anonymous. The whole poem is as follows:
Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaves, and fish play between them.
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.
Brief introduction of Yuefu poems:
Qin has Yuefu and is an official of Shaofu. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Yuefu Order was established, which was in charge of the ancestral temple sacrifice. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established Yuefu, made elegant music and collected folk songs. Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty are mainly preserved in seven of the twelve categories of Guo Maoqian's Yuefu poems in Song Dynasty. Among them, there are elegant music, 18 songs of worship, and folk songs mainly include harmony songs, dance songs and miscellaneous songs. Yuefu folk songs in Han Dynasty are rich in content, reflecting the broad social life at that time, and are vigorous and fresh in art. Their poetic forms of five-character, seven-character and miscellaneous words are the pioneers of literati's five-character and seven-character poems, and they are precious wealth in the history of Chinese poetry.
Appreciation of works:
This is a folk song that eulogizes the joyful scene of the working people in the south of the Yangtze River when picking lotus. The first three issues indicate the season, occasion and place of picking lotus; The last four sentences describe the scene of fish playing. The whole poem uses metaphors and repeated rhetorical devices to write the beautiful artistic conception when picking lotus in Jiangnan. The whole poem does not directly describe the happy mood of lotus pickers, but fully reveals their joy through the description of lotus leaves and fish, as if hearing and seeing many lotus pickers singing and laughing with their own eyes, and many young men and lotus pickers are still flirting and courting.