1, work at sunrise and rest at sunset.
Work after getting up in the morning and go to bed after dark at night.
Describe the routine. Writing at sunrise and resting at sunset is also writing at sunrise and resting at sunset, which comes from the song of digging soil in pre-Qin Dynasty. These two poems describe simple living, an ancient working people, and praise peace and prosperity. Later generations used it to show that farmers go out early and return late and live a simple and regular life.
This poem, in extremely simple colloquial language, describes a happy rural life, which is amazing in just 23 words. The specific writing time of this poem is unknown. Later generations speculated that the background of this poem was about 4000 years ago, when it was still the age of the sage Yao Shun. Although backward, there is no war, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.
At noon on the day of weeding, sweat dripped down the soil.
At noon in midsummer, under the scorching sun, farmers were still working and sweat dripped into the soil.
At noon in summer, the sun is very hot, farmers are still working, and beads are dripping into the soil. From two poems written by Shen Li, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, for farmers. This group of poems profoundly reflects the living conditions of farmers in feudal China.
The first poem vividly depicts the fruitful scene everywhere, highlighting the realistic problem that farmers have worked hard to get a bumper harvest, but they starve to death with empty hands; The second song describes the scene of working in farmers' fields at noon in the scorching sun, which generally shows the hard work life of farmers all year round. Finally, the poet expressed his heartfelt sympathy for the farmers with the motto "Who knows that every meal is hard".
The poetry anthology selected typical life details and well-known facts, and concentrated on describing the social contradictions at that time. The style of the whole poem is simple and heavy, the language is popular and simple, the syllables are harmonious and bright, the combination of reality and reality, and the comparative application enhances the expressive force of the whole poem. These two poems are not only widely circulated among the people, but also have a certain influence in the history of literature. In modern times, they are chosen as ideological textbooks for primary schools.
Plant a millet in spring and harvest 10,000 seeds in autumn.
Sow a seed in spring and you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.
"A millet is planted in spring, and 10,000 seeds are harvested in autumn" comes from two poems of Li Shen's compassion for farmers in Tang Dynasty. This sentence shows the great contribution and infinite creativity of farmers, but combined with the whole poem, it expresses the irony and criticism of the hard life of ordinary people and society.
The first two sentences, "planting a millet in spring and harvesting 10 thousand seeds in autumn", describe the hard work of ordinary people and also describe the scene of bumper harvest after paying. The last two sentences, "there are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death", reflect that although the people have worked hard and created great wealth, they still have to face the situation of starvation. The great contrast before and after the whole poem criticized and satirized the society at that time.