"If you plant a millet in spring, you will reap ten thousand seeds in autumn." From the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shen's "Compassion for Farmers".
Author: Li Shen Age: Tang
If you plant a millet in spring, you will reap ten thousand seeds in autumn.
there are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death.
Appreciation:
This is a poem that exposes social injustice and sympathizes with farmers' sufferings, focusing on the cruel exploitation suffered by farmers in the old society.
in the first and second sentences, "If you plant a millet in spring, you will reap ten thousand seeds in autumn", and in terms of "spring planting" and "autumn harvest", you can generally describe farmers' labor. From "a millet" to "ten thousand seeds", vividly write the scene of harvest. The third sentence, "There are no idle fields in the four seas", even states that all the land in the country has been reclaimed, and no field is idle.
The semantics of this sentence and the previous two sentences complement each other, thus showing fruitful and golden harvest scenes everywhere. Working people have worked hard to create such huge wealth. In the harvest year, it is reasonable to have plenty of food and clothing, right? Who knows the sentence is "the farmer still starved to death".
this is really shocking! The word "Jude" is thought-provoking: who deprived the peasants of the fruits of labor and trapped them in death? The word "I still starve to death" profoundly exposes social injustice and embodies the poet's strong indignation and sincere sympathy.