Trying to catch cicadas, I suddenly became silent.
The shepherd boy rode on the back of the cow,
The song echoed in the Woods.
Trying to catch the chirping cicada,
Stand under the tree at once without saying a word.
This is a five-character quatrain written by Yuan Mei, a poet in Qing Dynasty, which describes what he saw at noon in summer. The language of the poem is fresh, smooth and clear as words. Through the description of the combination of static and dynamic, it vividly depicts a lively, innocent and lovely shepherd boy image.
The sentence "The shepherd boy rides an ox, and the song vibrates Lin Yue" is written about the shepherd boy riding leisurely on the back of the ox. He sings pastoral songs, and his loud songs echo in the forest. Riding a Yellow Cattle shows the carefree manner of a shepherd boy. "Singing" expresses the happy mood of the shepherd boy. All sounds and sounds are ready, and the scenes blend together, outlining a colorful "Song of the Shepherd".
"I wanted to catch cicadas, but suddenly I kept silent." I wrote that when the shepherd boy was walking, he suddenly wanted to catch cicadas chirping in the tree, so he immediately stopped singing and stood silently under the tree, staring at cicadas. "Trying to catch cicadas" is not what the poet sees, but what the poet thinks about the shepherd boy's mind. Sudden Silence is about the clever and agile movements and expression changes of a shepherd boy. This poem instantly captures the details of the shepherd boy's psychological development and movement changes, and vividly outlines a "shepherd boy catching cicadas."