Yao Nai's "Mountain Trip": "The cuckoo flies to persuade early ploughing and hoes to catch up with spring." Why are there so many versions of "hoe" in the book "Spring hoe"? Who is right?

The correct word is "hoe"

I. Sources

From the seven-character quatrain "Mountain Walk" written by Yao Nai, a poet in Qing Dynasty.

Second, the original text

The cuckoo flies to persuade early ploughing, and the hoe flies at the spring eye.

Melaleuca trees pass through the road, and the sound of Shan Ye running water.

Three. translate

Cuckoo flies around to persuade people to plant the land early. When the weather is fine, egrets flap their wings in the sky.

Walking on the road between layers of stone trees, you can hear the sound of running water in the mountains and countryside.

Extended data

I. Appreciation

The first two sentences describe the activities of two kinds of birds with image antitheses, and sort them out, creating a timely atmosphere for writing about spring ploughing. The third sentence, write a deduction, and write a steep mountain road song from the perspective of looking up. The last sentence is the theme of the whole poem, which tells the busy scene of farmers sowing water and grain in mountainous areas. This poem describes what you saw and heard in the mountains, with ingenious conception and fresh and elegant language.

Two. Brief introduction of the author

Yao Nai, born in 173 1, was a famous essayist in the Qing Dynasty, with a word biography and a dream valley. In the 28th year of Qianlong (1763), he was a scholar, and served as director of Danielle and editor-in-chief of the Four Books. He was only forty years old, resigned and returned to South China. He has lectured in Yangzhou Meihua, Jiangnan Ziyang, Nanjing Zhongshan and other academies for more than forty years, and his masterpiece is The Complete Works of Xi Baoxuan.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mountain Tour (Yao Naishi)