A pool of lotus flowers, leaves full of rice fields.
In August and autumn in Jiangnan, the head of a chicken is better than a clam.
The poem describes the pleasant scenery of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River in autumn, praises the products of his hometown and shows the author's love for his hometown. In the poem, metaphor is used, and the chicken's head rice is compared to pearls, and love is vividly on the paper.
About the author: Zheng Xie (1693— 1765), a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, and a native of Banqiao. In the first year of Qianlong (1736), he was a scholar, a magistrate in Fan County and Wei County, Shandong Province. Because of people's hunger, begging for relief, high officials, begging for illness, living in Yangzhou and selling paintings for a living. Painting Zhu Lan, calligraphy is related to Li Kaixian's three-body and does not form a grid. Poetry approaches Bai Juyi and wins with simple description. There is the Complete Works of Banqiao.
The author's anecdote and allusion: cleverly scolding the gentry
On one occasion, a gentleman asked Zheng Xie to write a plaque. The gentry fawned on the government and did many bad things. Zheng Xie decided to play a trick on him, so he wrote four words: "Elegant and respectful". When painting the door plaque, Zheng Xie asked the painter to draw only the left half of the words "elegance, strangeness and quietness" and only the word "Wen". After a while, the unpainted part of the plaque on the front door of Shen Hao Building became blurred, while the painted part became clear. From a distance, the original "elegance and respect" has become the homonym of "yamen lackeys".