What is the meaning of four seasons in ancient poetry (I)?

Go out to mow the grass in the field during the day and come back to rub hemp rope at night. Both men and women on the farm shoulder the burden of family. Children don't know how to cultivate, but they also plant melons under mulberry trees like adults.

Original text:

During the day, weeding in the fields and rubbing hemp thread at home at night, the men and women in the village took on all the housework.

Although the children don't plow and weave, they also learn a kind of melon in the shade of mulberry trees.

Origin: Miscellaneous Stories of Four Seasons (I) is an idyllic poem written by Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is one of his family poems Sixty Miscellaneous Stories of Four Seasons.

Extended data

After reading Fan Chengda's pastoral poems, I suddenly feel that rural life really has its own fun. In my imagination, farming and weeding should be a particularly monotonous and repetitive job. Facing the loess and facing the sky every day is not a life state that everyone likes.

However, in Fan Chengda's rural paintings, we can see hardworking men who are willing to give everything for their families and don't feel bitter at all. It is the greatest happiness to see parents, wives and children well fed and warm.

Women and children will not put all the burdens on men, they will do their best to support a family. Working together, eating together, sharing weal and woe together, such days are really enjoyed quickly.