The original poem is as follows
Summer Resort Za Qi Xing Qi
Song Dynasty: Fan Chengda
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.
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Weeding in the fields during the day and rubbing hemp thread 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.
Background of extended data creation
This is a set of four-season pastoral poems written by Fan Chengda who retired from his hometown Shihu in his later years. There are 60 poems, which are divided into four groups: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each group has 12 poems. It's all about rural life. Here is a poem "Summer".
This poem describes the quiet and peaceful rural life. Adults weave hemp and farm, while children learn to grow melons. It is nothing more than ordinary daily chores, but it reveals an ordinary but satisfying mental state. Simple rural life, simple food, work at sunrise, rest at sunset, and a simple beauty flows slowly.
In ancient times, although there was no Children's Day, children at that time would entertain themselves. There is a good saying: as long as there is childlike innocence, every day is Children's Day. In the early summer, "children and grandchildren don't plow and weave, but also learn to grow melons in mulberry shade." They are playing house, seriously planting melons and beans.
This poem describes the life scene of rural people's intense labor in early summer. The main idea of the poem is that people are busy weeding in the fields during the day and spinning and weaving when they come home at night. Men, women and children in rural areas each undertake a certain job in the family. Although young children still don't know how to farm and weave, they have learned to grow vegetables and melons under the shade of mulberry trees.
Fan Chengda's parents died young and his family was poor. However, he is smart and eager to learn. He studied hard at Shenshan Temple for ten years. Once out of the mountain, I was admitted to Jinshi, and I succeeded. In his later years, he saw through the darkness of state affairs, lived in Shihu, only five kilometers away from the ancient city of Suzhou, and called himself Shihu lay man.
Shihu is a land of fish and rice. As early as five or six thousand years ago, people settled here. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was also a famous battlefield for Wu Guohe. Here, mountains and rivers are interdependent, and the smoke and waves are hidden. It can be called a victory and is known as the "Wuzhong Shengjing". Fan Chengda's life experience is rich, both as an official and as a poet, he has profound attainments.
In particular, in his later years, he retired to the countryside, and created the famous poems "Miscellaneous Stories of Four Seasons" and "Yuefu Village in December", which vividly described the pastoral scenery of each season, with fresh and lively style, beautiful and smooth, full of charm, and became an image portrayal of the customs and pastoral life of Shihu Water Town in Song Dynasty, which had a great influence on later generations. Therefore, Fan Chengda is known as "the master of ancient pastoral poetry".
Among them, there are sixty poems about the four seasons, which are divided into five parts: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter. In this poem, the poet is good at writing from the side, and through the description of his children and grandchildren who also learned to grow melons, he highlights the theme of rural men, women and children who love labor and is full of the breath of peasant life.