Poetry and Pastoral Miscellanies: Farewell to Spring

Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous Glory (Ⅰ)

Southern Song Dynasty

Chengda Fan

Tilling during the day, numb at night,

The children in the village are responsible for their own affairs.

Children and grandchildren have not been liberated to engage in farming and textile,

And learn to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees.

The villagers weed the fields during the day and rub hemp thread at night. Both men and women are not allowed to be idle and do their own work. Those children, who can neither plow nor knit sweaters, are not idle. Also learn to plant melons under lush mulberry trees.

It shows the naive interest of rural children.

With a fresh style, the poet described the tense labor atmosphere in the early summer in the countryside in a more delicate way, which made it interesting to read.

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