Also learn the poem of planting melons in mulberry shade

The original text of Fan Chengda's Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous Part 31 in the Song Dynasty;

During the day, weeding in the fields and rubbing hemp thread at home at night, the men and women in the village took on all the housework.

Although the children don't plow and weave, they also learn a kind of melon in the shade of mulberry trees.

Go to the fields to do field work during the day and rub twine at home at night. Both men and women in the village have their own household affairs. Although the children can't plow and weave, they have learned to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees.

With simple language and detailed description, this poem enthusiastically praises the intense and busy working life of farmers. The first sentence compares day and night, and unfolds a picture of rural men and women plowing, making contributions and being busy day and night. The last two sentences vividly describe the rural children's participation in the labor they can, revealing the poet's love for the children. The image of children described in the poem is innocent and lovely.

The author's life experience

Fan Chengda (1126-1193), whose word is intelligent, is called Shi Hu lay man. Han nationality, born in Wuxian County, Pingjiang (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Poets in Southern Song Dynasty. Shi Wenmu. Starting from the Jiangxi School, he studied the poems in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, inherited the realistic spirit of poets such as Bai Juyi, Wang Jian and Zhang Ji, and finally became his own family.

Simple style, fresh and charming. 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 also known as the "Four Masters of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty.