It is a five-character quatrain "What I See" written by Yuan Mei, a writer in Qing Dynasty.
The whole poem is as follows:
Cowboys ride on the backs of oxen, and songs echo in the forest.
Suddenly want to catch the song of the tree, immediately stop singing and stand by the tree silently.
The translation is as follows:
The shepherd boy rode on the back of the cow, and the loud song echoed in the forest.
Suddenly, I wanted to catch the cicada in singing in the trees, so I stopped singing and stood quietly by the tree.
Extended data:
Creation background
Yuan Mei loves life. After resigning, he lived in Jiangning and "lived in Cangshan for 30 years" (Panasonic works). He advocates expressing his temperament, and his writing is mostly idle, ethereal and smooth, novel and dazzling. This poem is a scene in which the poet saw a shepherd boy singing on a cow in his life, suddenly stopped singing to catch cicadas after hearing cicadas, and then created it with great interest.
Brief introduction of the author
Yuan Mei, a gifted scholar (1716-1797), is a famous sword Zhai. In his later years, he was named Cangshan lay man, Suiyuan master and Suiyuan old man. Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). Poet and essayist in Qing Dynasty. In the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), he was a scholar, successively in Lishui, Jiangning and other counties, and returned at the age of forty. Build a garden at the foot of Xiaocang Mountain in Jiangning and recite it.
He was one of the representative poets in Ganjia period, and was called "the three great poets in Gan Long" together with Zhao Yi and Jiang Shiquan. His works are of their own, and like them, they are called "South Yuan and North Ji". There are also Fang Shan Ji and Sui Yuan Shi Hua by Ogura.
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