The hero of "Picking Hibiscus on the River" is a homesick woman. It is the homesick wife (that is, wife) of the wandering son who left home in Jiangnan. According to the homophonic pun commonly used in Jiangnan folk songs, the "lotus" in poetry is often in harmony with the sound of "husband's face", that is, the husband's face.
original poem:
picking hibiscus in Shejiang. Han Dynasty: anonymous
picking hibiscus in Shejiang, Lanze is full of fragrant grass.
what you want to leave behind is far away.
I still look at my old hometown, and the road is vast.
if you leave home with one heart, you will die of sorrow.
Definition:
I crossed the river to pick lotus flowers, and the Shui Ze with bluegrass was full of herbs.
but who should I give the lotus flowers to? I want to give it to my lover far away.
Looking back at the hometown where we lived together, the road seems so endless.
two hearts love each other but can't be together. So we have to be on our own, sad and sad until we die in a foreign land.
Extended information:
During the Han Dynasty, thousands of students in Qian Qian left their hometown to study and seek official jobs. However, most of them have nowhere to display their talents. These scholars who are frustrated in their official career will naturally miss their hometown and relatives in the loneliness and frustration of their hopeless official career and friends. This poem is the representative of homesickness and homesickness in Nineteen Ancient Poems.
at the turn of summer and autumn, it is a beautiful season for lotus flowers to bloom. In the sunny weather, it is a pleasure for peasant women in the south of the Yangtze River to take a boat and walk on the lake where the lotus leaves are He Tiantian and the lotus flowers are over their heads to start the annual lotus picking activity.
When picking lotus, picking some lovely red lotus flowers and giving them to their sweethearts is hardly a sign of the sincere affection of the wife and girls. What's more, there are countless orchids and fragrant grasses on the banks of the lake, which are picked up in the sleeves, inserted in the hairline and fragrant, which is even more fascinating.
—— This is the picturesque landscape shown by the two sentences "Picking hibiscus on the river, and making more fragrant grass in Lanze". If you listen carefully, readers will surely hear the sounds of banter and laughter coming from the lake and between Lanze.
Baidu encyclopedia-picking hibiscus in Shejiang