"Xizhou Song" has five words and thirty-two sentences, which is a rare long piece of Yuefu folk songs in the Southern Dynasties. The full text is very delicate, "full of the emotional appeal of Li Manwan's music, with clear pronunciation and mellow voice, which makes people' emotional'." Xizhou Song is one of the most mature and exquisite masterpieces of folk songs in this period.
Original: Yimei went to Xizhou, and Plum was sent to Jiangbei. Thin clothes are as red as apricots and hair as black as crows. Where is Xixi Jiao? The two oars on board can be placed at the ferry pier of the Kau Xizhou Bridge. It's getting late, Shrike flies away, and the night wind blows into Sapium sebiferum. Under the tree is her home, and her emerald hair is exposed in the door. She opened the door and didn't see her sweetheart. She went out to pick red-violet flowers. Autumn, autumn Nantang, she is holding a lotus seed, and the lotus grows taller. With his head down, he fiddled with the lotus seeds in the water, which were as green as the lake. Hide lotus seeds in your sleeve. Lotus seeds are red and transparent. Miss my husband, but not yet. She looks up at the swan in the sky. The sky was full of geese, and she went up to the tower to see her husband. Although the tower is high, she can't see her husband. She leans against the railing all day. The railing bent and bent into the distance, and her hands were as bright as jade. The curtain is so high, rippling like sea water, empty and generally dark green. If the sea is as long as a dream, then you are sad and I am sad. If Nanfeng knows how I feel, please blow my dream to Puxi Island.
The first sentence "Mei" evokes a woman's fond memories of playing with her lover in Xizhou, and her thoughts about her lover. Since then, even though time and space have passed, my thoughts have never stopped.
Next, several scenes are described: Xizhou Amusement, women's apricot clothes and black sideburns set each other off; Open the door to welcome lang, full of hope and disappointment, and the mood is ups and downs; Go out to pick lotus flowers and express your love and yearning for your lover; Looking up at Lang, leaning against the fence, waiting for him, feeling the south wind, dreaming and expecting to meet his lover.
Among them, the change of time and space, the mood is also changeable, sometimes anxious, sometimes warm, sometimes sweet, sometimes melancholy, the whole article is full of words and emotions.
This poem is composed of four sentences, which are basically rhyming. The sections are connected by the "conjunction" method commonly used in folk songs, with beautiful timbre and swaying voice.
Mainly write about a young girl, depicting her warm and subtle feelings of missing her lover. However, it is not written in the first person's self-reported tone of the girl, nor is it an objective description of the poet's third person, but in the way of "memory", so the whole poem is written in the tone of male narration.