Intertext is a rhetorical method often used in ancient poetry.
Example:
1. Buy a horse in the east market, a saddle and shackles in the west market, a bridle in the south market, and a whip in the north market. It means: Go to the East Market to buy a horse, go to the West Market to buy a saddle, go to the South Market to buy a bridle, and go to the North Market to buy a whip.
The meaning of these four sentences is to go to various markets to prepare pommel horses and other war equipment, not to buy the same thing in one place.
2. A general will die in a hundred battles, and a strong man will return in ten years. It means: The general has been through hundreds of battles but has few survivors, and the warrior (Mulan) has returned victoriously after ten years of military service.
The meaning of these two sentences is that after many years of fighting, many soldiers died on the battlefield, and Mulan and other survivors returned victorious.
Extended information:
Form:
1. Same sentence and intertextuality. Intertextuality occurs within the same sentence. For example, in the sentence "Qin family, Mingyue, Han Shiguan", "Qin" and "Han" complement each other. For example, "the master dismounted from the boat", "the boat sank in the east", "the host forgot to return the guest but did not see him off", "the dog barked in the west" also belong to this category, as well as "smoke cage, cold water, moon cage, sand".
2. Arrange sentences and intertextuality. The arrangement of intertextual sentences means that these intertextual sentences are two or more sentences, which penetrate and complement each other to express a complete meaning. For example, in Mulan's poem, "Buy a horse in the east city, buy a saddle in the west city, buy a bride in the south city, and buy a long whip in the north city" is an intertextual sentence arrangement.
3. Intertextuality between sentences. Intertextuality refers to the intertextuality between two sentences and other sentences. Analyze and understand the same thinking steps as "intertextuality of sentence pairs". Intertextuality in a pair of sentences means that the words that appear in the (lower) sentence will appear in the (upper) sentence, and the meanings of these sentences complement each other.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Intertext