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What is the meaning of "sandbar" in "Lonely sandbar Cold"?

Shazhou is an uninhabited island in Hong Kong. This island was once a battlefield in the Ming Dynasty. Before the Opium War, most British ships were anchored there. At low tide, the island was named after a sandbar.

It shows the writer's lonely feelings, yearning and confusion about love, and the benefits of sandbar as a metaphor.