What does "cherry is red and banana is green" mean?

"Cherry red banana green" means: cherry red is ripe, banana is green again, spring goes and summer comes.

1. Source: A plum with a boat crossing the Wujiang River by Jie Jiang, a poet in the late Song Dynasty.

2, the original text is: streamer is easy to throw people, red cherry, green banana.

Spring is fleeting and people can't catch up. Cherry is red, ripe, banana is green again, spring goes and summer comes.

Extended data

First, the creative background

This poem was written at the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the 13th year of Yuan Dynasty (1276), after the Yuan army broke Lin 'an in the spring, the poet began to wander, and wrote it when he passed the Wusong River in Wujiang County by boat.

Second, appreciate

The first sentence of the poem not only explains the time sequence, but also points out the theme of "spring sorrow", which shows the poet's continuous melancholy. In the next film, the homesickness of traveling abroad is raised to a sigh of fleeting time, expressing the poet's endless yearning for his hometown. The whole poem selects typical scenery and scenes to render layer by layer, and writes out the poet's feelings of hurting spring and homesickness after living in a foreign land for a long time.

Three. Brief introduction of the author

Jie Jiang (later about 1245 ~ 1305) was a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. After the collapse of the Southern Song Dynasty, he deeply felt the pain of national subjugation and lived in a simple life. Known as "Mr. Zhushan" and "Cherry Jinshi".

Baidu encyclopedia-crossing the Wujiang river with one cut of plum and one boat