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Author: Southern Song Dynasty. Fan Chengda
The children in the village are in charge of their own affairs.
children and grandchildren are not ready for farming and weaving, but also learn to grow melons by mulberry shade.
This poem describes a scene in rural summer life. The first sentence, "Going out to cultivate the fields in the daytime and getting hemp at night", means: Going to the fields to weed during the day and rubbing hemp thread at night. "Farming" means weeding. In early summer, the rice seedlings need weeding. This is what men do. "Ji Ma" means that after women finish other work during the day, they rub hemp thread at night and weave it into cloth. This sentence directly writes about labor scenes. In the second sentence, "Children in the village are in charge of their own affairs", that is, "children" means men and women, and the whole poem uses the tone of an old farmer, and "children" means young people. "Being in charge" means that both men and women are not allowed to be idle, and each of them is in charge of his own affairs.
in the third sentence, "children and grandchildren are not ready for farming and weaving", and "children and grandchildren" refer to those children who can neither farm nor weave, but they are not idle. They have been exposed to and loved working since childhood, so they "learn to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees" and learn to grow melons under the lush mulberry trees. This is a common phenomenon in rural areas, but it is quite distinctive.
The conclusion shows the naive interest of rural children. With a fresh style, the poet gave a more delicate description of the tense labor atmosphere in the early summer in the countryside, which made him interesting to read.
About the author:
Fan Chengda (June 26, 1126—October 1, 1193), with the word "capable" and the word "young yuan", was named this mountain layman in his early years and Shihu layman in his later years. Han nationality, born in Wuxian County, Pingjiang Prefecture (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). Famous officials, writers and poets in the Southern Song Dynasty. Poetry has a wide range of themes, and the works that reflect the content of rural social life have the highest achievements. Together with Yang Wanli, Lu You and You Mao, they are called "Four Poets of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty.