From "Look at the Wheat Cutting"
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Looking at Wheat Cutting is an early work of Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the busy farming scene in the wheat harvest season, criticizes the exorbitant taxes and levies that caused people's poverty, and feels deeply guilty that the poet himself can have plenty of food and clothing without virtue labor, showing the humanitarian spirit of a feudal official with conscience.
In writing techniques, the poet combines panoramic description with the description of specific characters, making the whole poem an organic whole.
Guan Men Mai is a famous satirical poem written by the author in his early years. This poem was written in the first year of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong (805) to the second year of Yuanhe (806). It was written by Bai Juyi when he was a county magistrate in Ku (now zhouzhi county, Shaanxi Province), feeling that the local people were working hard and living in poverty.
The county commandant is responsible for catching thieves and collecting taxes in the county. It is precisely because Bai Juyi is in charge of this matter that he knows best the disasters suffered by the working people in this regard.
This poem is clear in narration, natural in structure, clear in hierarchy and strong in logic. At the beginning of the poem, the background is explained first, indicating that May is the busy season for wheat harvest. Then write down that women lead their children to the fields to give food and water to young people who are cutting wheat. Then it describes the young and middle-aged farmers cutting wheat with their heads down in Nangang wheat field, fumigating their feet with heat and baking their backs in the hot sun.
I'm exhausted and I don't feel hot. I just cherish the long days in summer and can do more work. Since heavy taxes have made poor women lose their fields, they will also make this peasant family who is cutting wheat lose their fields. The poet linked the pain of farmers' life with the ease of his own life, feeling ashamed and unable to calm down for a long time.
This lyric text is the essence of the whole poem. It is the product of the author's touching feelings and shows the poet's deep sympathy for the working people. Bai Juyi wrote satirical poems with the aim of "only making people sick, and I hope the emperor knows."
In this poem, he made a sharp contrast between the peasants and himself as a court official with his own personal feelings, that is, he hoped that the "son of heaven" was affectionate and tactful, which could be described as well-intentioned.