Full text of Jiangnan ancient poetry

Jiangnan-Anonymous Han Dynasty

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

This is a lotus picking song, which reflects the scene of lotus picking and the happy mood of lotus pickers. It has a unique flavor in the folk songs of Han Yuefu.

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.

In the classification of Yuefu, this poem belongs to the "harmony song", which is originally a song sung by two people or by everyone, so the four sentences of "fish beating lotus leaves" may be the harmony song. Therefore, the first two sentences of the poem may be sung by male singers; The third sentence is male and female chorus; The last four sentences should be sung by men and women in groups. In this way, the scene of picking lotus is more vivid and interesting, and the mystery of this song can be better understood.