You want to send me a peach, and I want to give it back to Qiong Yao. Not to thank you, always cherish your feelings.
You give me wood, and I'll take Joan Jiu in return. Not to thank you, always cherish your feelings.
Translation:
You give me papaya, and I give it to Joan in return. Not just thanking, but cherishing feelings and being friends forever.
You give me Mu Tao, and I will give Qiong Yao in return. Not just thanking, but cherishing feelings and being friends forever.
You give me Muli, and I'll take Joan Jiu in return. Not just thanking, but cherishing feelings and being friends forever.
Phoenix Papaya is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in ancient China. The whole poem consists of three chapters, each with four sentences. There is a lot of controversy about the theme of this poem. After textual research and interpretation by Han people, Song people, Qing people and even today's scholars, there are seven sayings about this poem in the history of literature, such as "Beauty Qi Huangong", "Men and women give and answer", "Friends give and answer", "Courtiers pay back", "Defenders pay back", "Bribery of gifts" and "Expressing the meaning of reciprocity". In art, the sentences of the whole poem have a high degree of overlap and repetition, and have a strong musicality. However, the uneven sentence patterns have caused ups and downs, achieving the effect of both sound and emotion, with a strong folk song color.