The sky is crisp and the morning light is faint. The farmers have got up and started a day's field work. In the field, farmers were weeding, only to see their big arms swing hard, and their small arms took advantage of the trend and hoes hit the pile of weeds. When they pulled back, a weed under the hoe was pulled out by the root hoe.
The most interesting thing is the children. They have nothing to do, so they also create a set of agricultural activities. They are very busy. They ran under the mulberry trees and learned to grow melons like adults. You see, they are hunched over and digging holes with small hoes; The other is holding a handful of melon seeds in his hand and carefully sowing them inside; Another scooped water with a ladle and poured it into the pit. Several people cooperated tacitly and soon planted some.
As night fell, the peasant women began to work. They twisted hemp into thin threads and used them to make clothes. I saw them holding hemp in their left hand, pushing their right hands forward and twisting their hands repeatedly. Slowly, a mass of hemp turned into thin hemp rope.
People have been busy until the dead of night, dragging their tired bodies and falling asleep with a burst of insects.
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This poem describes a scene of summer life in the countryside.
The first sentence "Going out to farm during the day, getting hemp at night" means: weeding in the field during the day and rubbing hemp thread at night. "Tillage" means weeding. In early summer, the seedlings need weeding. This is what men should do. "Ji Ma" refers to women who rub twine and weave cloth at night after finishing other work during the day. This sentence directly wrote the labor scene. The second sentence "the children in the village mind their own affairs" refers to men and women. The whole poem uses the tone of an old farmer, and "children" refers to young people. "Being in charge" means that both men and women are not allowed to be idle and mind their own business.
In the third sentence, "children and grandchildren are not prepared for farming and weaving", and "children and grandchildren" refer to those children who can neither farm nor weave, but are not idle. They have been exposed to it since childhood, so they "learn to plant melons under the shade of mulberry trees" and also learn to plant melons under the lush mulberry trees. This is a common phenomenon in rural areas, but it is quite distinctive. The conclusion 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.