Interpretation: The spring rain has rained enough, so that even the high fields are covered with white water. In order to compete for seeds, farmers braved the heavy rain and wore hemp fibers to farm in the middle of the night.
2. Tian Jia has less leisure in the month, and people are twice as busy in May. -Bai Juyi (Tang Dynasty), "Looking at Wheat Cutting"
Interpretation: Farmers have no leisure all year round, and they are doubly busy in May.
At noon on weeding day, sweat dripped down the soil. -"Two Poems for Farmers" Li Shen (Tang Dynasty)
Interpretation: At noon in midsummer, under the scorching sun, farmers are still working and sweat is dripping in the soil.
4. In the morning, I was arrogant and took Yuelian home. -"Return to the Garden Three" Tao Yuanming (Wei and Jin Dynasties)
Interpretation: Get up early in the morning to weed, and carry a hoe in the moonlight at night.
In the countryside in April, there are few idle people, only raising silkworms to insert fields. -"April in the Country" Weng Juan (Song Dynasty)
Interpretation: April has arrived and no one is idle. As soon as sericulture is finished, the seedlings will be transplanted.
6, out of the field during the day and numb at night, the children in the village are in charge. -"Summer Village Miscellaneous Seven" Fan Chengda (Song Dynasty)
Interpretation: Weeding in the fields during the day and rubbing hemp thread at home at night, men and women in the village have their own housework.