Extended reading:
Song of the Water Town is the reading text of Unit 7, Book 3, Chinese Teaching Edition for Nine-year Compulsory Education and Six-year Primary School. This text is a poem, praising the beautiful scenery of the water town and the happy life of the people, and expressing the thoughts and feelings of loving nature and life.
The language of poetry is concise and capable, as clear as words, but it contains rich pictures of water towns and a strong flavor of life. A flowing landscape picture of a water town gives birth to the artistic conception of poetry.