The intermittent melodious flute of the shepherd boy was faintly heard in the evening breeze.
After dinner, at sunset, the shepherd boy came back from the pasture.
He didn't even take off his hemp fiber, but just lay on the grass and looked at the full moon in the sky.
Creative background:
Zhong You was a scholar. He was promoted to Lanzhou by Li Xian, but his official career was not smooth and he was demoted many times. When Zhong You was guarding Pingliang (now Pingliang County, Gansu Province), he once wandered with a Taoist and saw a shepherd boy leading a big cow to the yard. Road flyover said that the shepherd boy could write poems, but Zhong You didn't believe it. The shepherd boy improvised this poem at the request of the Taoist priest.
Central idea:
The Shepherd Boy is a seven-character quatrain written by Lv Yan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem vividly depicts a picture of a shepherd boy coming home late to rest, reflecting the tranquility and leisure of his life. It expresses the poet's inner world's yearning for a life away from the noise and enjoying a happy life.