Source: Jiangnan-Han Dynasty: Anonymous
Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaves, and fish play between them.
Fish hits the lotus leaf east, fish hits the lotus leaf west, fish hits the lotus leaf south, and fish hits the lotus leaf north.
It's the season suitable for picking lotus in the south of the Yangtze River, and the lotus leaves emerge, squeezed, overlapped and fluttered with the wind. Beneath the thick lotus leaves, cheerful fish are constantly playing. I stayed here for a while, and then I suddenly swam there. I don't know whether it is in the east, west, south or north.
Extended data
1, the creative background of Jiangnan
Jiangnan is a folk song of Han Dynasty and a work of Han Yuefu. A large number of repeated sentences and words are used in the poem, which shows the simple and clear style of ancient folk songs. The poem depicts the lively and joyful scene of picking lotus in the south of the Yangtze River. We seem to hear the laughter of the lotus pickers, from the fish who are dressed happily and frolicking.
2. Appreciation of Jiangnan
This is a lotus-picking song in Yuefu folk songs of Han Dynasty. The whole poem does not directly describe the happy mood of lotus pickers, but fully reveals their joy through the description of lotus leaves and fish, as if hearing and seeing many lotus pickers singing and laughing with their own eyes, and many young men and lotus pickers are still flirting and courting.
This article is a love song combined with labor. Poetry uses metaphors and puns that are common in folk love songs, with the homophonic sound of "lotus" and "pity" as the symbol of love, and the splash of fish between lotus leaves as a metaphor for the happy scene of young men and women falling in love in their works. Fresh and healthy style. The first three sentences of this poem outline a vivid Jiangnan landscape.
Yuefu was originally an official institution for managing music established during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It not only sings poems praising literati, but also undertakes the task of collecting folk songs. These movements and songs were later collectively referred to as "Yuefu Poetry" or "Yuefu". There are only more than forty existing folk songs in Han Yuefu, most of which are from the mouth of the lower class, reflecting some social contradictions at that time and having high cognitive value; At the same time, its style is straightforward and frank, with unique aesthetic taste.