It doesn't rain or turn yellow in Mi Yun.
Buckwheat blooms early with frost.
Divided into hunger and disability
Can't bear to grow up in the years.
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(1) Rice cloud: Rice is like a cloud, which is a metaphor for a vast paddy field.
(2) Buckwheat: Buckwheat, the name of the plant, whose seeds can be ground into cakes or noodles, is also a kind of food.
(3) Empty flower: In Buddhist language, it is also called "empty flower". Every time a patient sees something in the void, but it is not, it is called emptiness. It is not necessarily in the Buddhist language here, but it is meaningful and refers to a flower without substance.
(4) It has been divided: I have known it for a long time.
(5) leap year: that is, leap year, there is a leap month this year.
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The poet extended his brushwork to a broad social level to care about the survival of all beings, including the difficulties they suffered in life and various social and pathological phenomena. This form of self-concept projection of poetry creation became a common phenomenon in the Song Dynasty. Judging from Qian Zhongshu's Notes on Selected Poems of Song Dynasty, Mei's Tianjia and Hotan are the same.
It is the poet's moral mission to sympathize with the sufferings of all beings. In Yang Wanli's poems, he often shows such feelings, as if he were starving and drowning himself. Of course, people he sympathizes with may not read his poems, but poets or other intellectuals will always read them. If the rulers also understand what Bai Juyi said, "If you want to be merciful, you should seek irony from poetry first", then maybe you can take appropriate measures to deal with the problem and save the people.
"Compassion for Farmers" tells that farmers suffer from poor harvest and hunger all the year round because of insufficient rain and early frost, but when they encounter leap years, the years of suffering feel longer. Of course, there are still many things that have not been written. For example, the tax issue is a headache.
In the first two sentences, rice and wheat are what farmers depend on for survival, and their joys and sorrows are caused by them. Now they are "not too yellow" (not many fruits) because of "no rain" and "early frost", and they are "empty flowers" Seeing this situation, farmers can already predict that this year, a family, big or small, will spend their "old age" starving. Now that they have eaten according to the weather, God will not give them food, so they have to accept their fate. This is unbearable. This year is another leap of one month, and it will be "longer" at the age of 20. It's really "the house leaks and it rains overnight"!
The poet expressed sympathy for the peasants' sufferings and wrote a witness for a certain aspect of the peasants' life in the Song Dynasty and even in ancient times.