It is from the Poems of Yuefu in Han Dynasty, which describes a scene of picking lotus in the south.
Yuefu is an ancient central music management institution. Since the Zhou Dynasty, the ancient government attached great importance to music management.
The Qin dynasty was very short and didn't pay much attention to it, but it also set up Yuefu. The Han dynasty continued the institutional management mode of the Qin dynasty, using Yuefu to manage music, collecting and sorting out folk music works, and at the same time convening literati to create.
These songs collected among the people are all selected and better. Because it grows naturally and reflects the real life and real taste of ordinary people.
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This work, in fact, does not pay attention to literary talent. Because folk songs are spontaneously created by ordinary people, it is difficult for us to evaluate them from the perspective of literary talent. The most natural and simple style of writing, although lacking in literary talent, can often achieve the effect that literary talent cannot achieve.
Before Cao Zhi in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the ancients had little or no knowledge of literary talent. As long as they can be expressed, words and expressions are not rhetoric, and even if they exist, they are naturally formed. This kind of work is very simple, but it is actually an artistic effect. As a quaint style, it has a unique flavor.