"Elder sister, you are water.
You are the water of Qingxi.
Flowing carefree all day,
The real dragon is laughing,
Naturally, I forgot the way home.
Sister, you are water-
You are the water in the hot spring.
Deep down, he likes swimming.
I want it back,
It burned my hand.
Sister, you are water.
You are the water in the lotus pond.
Use lotus leaves as boats,
Borrow lotus stems as poles,
Sister, I want to come to the depths of the lotus! "
In the poetry circle of the Republic of China, some people are both poets and professional revolutionaries. Ying Xiuren belongs to this kind of person. Like most intellectuals, Ying Xiuren was influenced by traditional culture and inspired by new culture and new ideas. Ying Xiuren 1900 was born in Cixi, Zhejiang, and 1933 died at the age of 33. He was "one of the earliest budding young poets" during the May 4th New Literature Prosperity. His Lakeside Poetry Club was created at his initiative, and Lakeside and Song of Spring were edited and published by him at his own expense.
He became an outstanding new army in the vigorous new poetry movement at that time, and wrote an outstanding stroke in the history of China's poetry.
Sister, you are water, a love poem by Ying Xiuren, was included in Song of Spring by Lakeside Poetry Society (version 1923), with distinctive features, and it is a classic love poem by Lakeside poets.
Stylistically, the poem "Sister, you are water" has changed the formality and seriousness of love poems in the early May 4th movement, showing a bold and unrestrained atmosphere. This kind of "adventure" attempt has always been highly praised.
Boldly expressed the poet's passionate love and passionate pursuit for his "sister" who is as carefree as a clean stream, as warm as a hot spring and as warm and fresh as a lotus pond.
This poem is divided into three sections, with neat and harmonious structure. The whole poem uses metaphor to compare the "sister" that the poet boldly loves to water, which is deeper and deeper, and cuts open the poet's deep intoxication of beautiful love layer by layer.
In the first poem, the poet compares "Sister" to the water in Qingxi, which vividly shows the purity, liveliness and innocence of "Sister". Then, the poet personified Qingxi and wrote that she was "smiling all the time", which further highlighted the carefree, lively and optimistic characteristics of "Sister". Finally, I wrote that I was attracted by "Sister" and forgot to go home. In the first poem, the poet did not write that he fell in love with "Sister", but expressed his incomparable love for "Sister" through the aspect of "naturally making me forget the way home", which is very intriguing.
In the second section, the poet compares "Sister" to the water in a hot spring, giving people a warm feeling. It is appropriate and natural to say that he is in love with his "sister" as "I love swimming in my heart". "I want it back,/it burned my hand", which further wrote the poet's own mentality and emphasized how deep and enthusiastic his love for "sister" was.
In the third quarter, the poet compared "sister" to the water in the lotus pond. The lotus pond naturally reminds people of the lotus, then the lotus seed, and the homonym of "lotus" and "love" reminds people of the love between young men and women. The poet is eager to get close to her because he loves her, but the water describing the lotus pond is covered with dense lotus leaves, which symbolize the implicit character of "sister", so the poet thinks of "taking the lotus leaf as a boat" and "taking the lotus stem as a pole"
Go deep into the lotus and get close to the water, so as to realize the ideal of getting close to the beloved "sister"
In the three poems, the poet compares "Sister" to the water in Qingxi, hot spring and lotus pond. On the one hand, he praises the innocence and liveliness of "Sister", on the other hand, he creates layers of poetic and beautiful artistic conception. The language of poetry is natural, simple, fresh and elegant, which makes people linger for a long time after reading it.