(Song) Fan Chengda
Tilling during the day, the results are numb at night, and the children in the village are in charge.
Children and grandchildren are not prepared to farm and weave, but also learn to plant melons in the shade of mulberry trees.
Weeding in the fields during the day and rubbing hemp at home at night, both men and women in the village have their own household affairs. Although the children can't plow and weave, they have learned to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees.
This poem briefly analyzes a scene of rural summer life. The first sentence "going out to plow during the day and rubbing hemp thread at night" means rubbing. "Farming" means weeding. In early summer, the seedlings need weeding. This is what men should do. "Beating hemp" means that women finish other work during the day and rub hemp at night. The whole poem uses the tone of an old farmer, and "child" means young people. "Being in charge" means that both men and women are not allowed to be idle and make their own decisions. In the third sentence, "children and grandchildren are not prepared for farming" and "children and grandchildren" refer to those children, but they are not idle. They came into contact with it since childhood and loved labor, so they "learned to plant melons under the shade of mulberry trees."