2. Original text:
Two Poems for Farmers (Ⅰ)
In spring, as long as you sow a seed, you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.
There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death.
3. Translation:
Sow a seed in spring and you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.
There is not a piece of land that is not cultivated, but farmers still starve to death.
4. Introduction to the author:
Li Shen (772-846), a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was born in the seventh year of the Tang Dynasty, and his ancestral home was in Bozhou, Anhui. His works have been handed down to this day, including 3 volumes of Journey to the West and Miscellaneous Poems 1 volume, which are included in the Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty.
5. Appreciate:
This poem profoundly reflects the miserable life of farmers in feudal times, vividly depicts the fruitful scenes everywhere, and highlights the realistic problem that farmers have worked hard to get a bumper harvest but starved to death with empty hands.