Guo Feng, Chen Feng, translated by Dongmenchi

Fengdongmen Pool [Pre-Qin] Dongmen Pool is nameless and can be drowned. The beautiful and kind three girls can match her singing skills. Outside the east gate, it can be used as a pond. Three beautiful and kind girls can talk about their families. Outside the east gate, it can be used as an immersion pool. Three beautiful and kind girls can sue with her.

The east gate protects the city and can be used as a pond. Three beautiful and kind girls can sing with her. Outside the east gate, the city can be guaranteed and can be used as a pond. Three beautiful and kind girls, who can chat and talk at home. The east gate protects the city and can be used as a bathing pool. Three beautiful and kind girls can talk to her.

Annotation pool: moat. Speaking of swimming pools. Soak in water for a long time. Soak hemp in water before spinning, and then peel it off to weave linen. Shu: Goodness and beauty. One is "uncle", which means ranking third. Ji: Zhou. It is a good name for women in ancient times. Wu's Song: Singing together means singing in duet. ZH: Same as "ramie", ramie. Perennial herb with fibrous stem bark, which can be used for rope making and textile. Dialogue: Dialogue. Jiān: talking grass.

Appreciate this is a cheerful labor duet. It is conceivable that this kind of scene is still common today. The soaked water has a rather strong smell. It is a very hard job to take the hemp soaked for a long time out of the water, wash off the soaked pulp and peel off the hemp skin. However, in this hard work, the young man can talk and sing with his beloved girl, and his mood is very different. Hard work turns into a warm party, and the song is full of joy.

There are three chapters and twelve sentences in the whole poem, but actually it is only one meaning, and one chapter has covered all the meanings. Chapters 2 and 3 are just repetitions. However, clothes are the traditional language form of China folk songs, and words with the same or similar meanings are repeatedly sung. This repeated chanting not only shows the simplicity and intensity of the working youth's feelings, but also strengthens the theme of poetry through repeated superposition. This method has been used until modern times. If there is any change, only three words will be changed in the three chapters, and the object of one retting is not only hemp, but also ramie and grass; One is that the form of meeting has changed, and there are still words. This shows that with the continuation of the delivery process, the temperature of love is gradually rising.

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