Don Cui Daorong
The rain is high and white,
Plow the fields in the middle of the night.
People and cows are exhausted,
The east is not clear.
Translation]
Because of the abundant rain, the fields on the highlands are all water and white. Farmers get up in the middle of the night, put on straw clothes, and drive cattle to plow in the rain. When people and cows are exhausted, it is not yet dawn.
[analysis]
This poem describes farmers plowing in the rain before dawn, and the contrast between "doing their best" and "being at a loss" reflects farmers' tireless hard work life.
Brief introduction of the author
Cui Daorong's date of birth and death remains to be verified. Poets in Tang Dynasty. Since the number Dongou scattered people. Jingzhou Jiangling people. Before and after the second year of Ganning (895), he served as the magistrate of Yongjia County, then entered the DPRK to fill the vacancy, and soon entered Fujian to avoid the war. He is good at writing poems and making friends with Si Kongtu and Qian Fang. 80 poems, all quatrains. Some of these works have social significance. For example, "Xi Poetry" denies the traditional concept that "women are a disaster", which is unfair to the stone. The poem says, "Kill? Wu Wu died, and history lost momentum. " The spring water in Huansha is rushing, and there seems to be an uneven sound. "Tian Shang" describes the hard work of farmers plowing fields on rainy nights. Poems such as "Send a Person" and "Cold Food Night" are also excellent.