function
Overlapping syllables can enhance our sense of language and give our hearing a sense of sound beauty. Reduplication can also express cordial and friendly feelings. This method is often used in literary works to express deep affection.
Reduplication is very common in children's songs we read. For example, "chickens chirp and ducklings croak." The use of onomatopoeic words and reduplicative words draws a pure, lovely and lively picture, showing a unique life interest and lovely image.
Extended data
Jumping Cowherd Star is a five-character poem written by literati in Han Dynasty, and it is one of the nineteen ancient poems. This poem, based on the myth that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are blocked by the Milky Way and can't meet each other, expresses the feelings of women's parting and lovesickness, and writes the sadness that husband and wife on earth can't reunite. Between the lines, there is a certain sense of dissatisfaction and conflict.
The poet grasps the Milky Way and the loom related to the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and describes the feelings of the Weaver Girl, such as her affectionate feelings, careless weaving, tears crossing the river and sighing, to compare her husband's love for his wife who is far away from home. The whole poem is rich in imagination, lingering in emotion, beautiful in language and peculiar in realm. It is a wonderful flower in acacia Huaiyuan's poems and attracts much attention.
original work
Distant Altair, Jiao Jiao Hehan girl.
Skillful hands, make a loom.
There is no chapter all day, and tears are pouring down.
What's the difference between a clear river and a shallow one?
Between water and water, there are no words.
Vernacular translation
Distant and bright Altair, bright and distant Vega.
The weaver girl is waving her long white hands, and the loom keeps ringing.
Because of lovesickness, she couldn't weave any patterns all day, and tears scattered all over the floor like rain.
They are not far from each other only by the clear and shallow Milky Way.
Across the clear and shallow banks of the Milky Way, staring at each other in silence.
Baidu encyclopedia-reduplication
Baidu encyclopedia-Altair