1. Plant water chestnut in depth, rice in depth and lotus in depth. -Qing Dynasty: Ruan Yuan's Xing Wu Zashi.
Vernacular: Deep water is suitable for planting water, shallow water is suitable for planting rice, and neither deep nor shallow water is suitable for planting lotus flowers. This poem depicts the working people in the south of the Yangtze River making full use of natural production.
2. The husband plows hard and goes hungry, while the old woman weaves hard and is naked. -Song Dynasty: Zhao Xu's Tuizi.
Vernacular: My husband is working hard in farming, but he is still starving. The old woman knits hard, but she always has nothing to wear. This sentence shows that the working people are hardworking, but they still lack food and clothing.
3, there are no idle people in the farming month, and the home is in the south. -Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei's New Sunny Wild Hope.
Vernacular: There are no idle people in the busy farming season, and farmers are busy working in the fields.
4, beautiful jewelry Hou, all from the sand bottom. -Tang Dynasty: Liu Yuxi's Nine Poems of Langtaosha.
The beauty's gold jewelry and the prince's gold seal are all washed out by the working people from the bottom sand of the waves.
5, Tian family is bitter in autumn, and the neighboring women are cold at night. -Tang Dynasty: Li Bai's Su Songwu and Xia Shan Xun Shujia.
Dialect: Farmer Qiu Lai is busier at work. The girl next door pounded rice all night, not afraid of the cold autumn night.
6. The Book of Songs in July
Fire is full in July, and clothes are delivered in September.
The first day I was fat, the next day I was fierce.
No clothes, no brown, why die?
On the third and fourth day, I stood on tiptoe.
With my daughter-in-law, we are very happy to see each other in the south.