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.
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.
Extended data:
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.
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.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Jiangnan