The ancient poem Jiangnan

Jiangnan is a Yuefu poem in Han Dynasty. This is a folk song that eulogizes the joyful scene of the working people in the south of the Yangtze River when picking lotus. The first three issues indicate the season, occasion and place of picking lotus; The last four sentences describe the scene of fish playing. The whole poem uses metaphors and repeated rhetorical devices to write the beautiful artistic conception when picking lotus in Jiangnan.

South of the Yangtze river

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.

Precautions:

Mr Hu: How?

Tian Tian: Lotus leaves are closely linked. [3]

Vernacular translation:

Lotus can be picked on the water in the south of the Yangtze River, with lush lotus leaves and fish playing in them.

Fish plays lotus leaf east, fish plays lotus leaf west, fish plays lotus leaf south and fish plays lotus leaf north.