Fan Song Chengda
Tilling during the day, numb at night,
The children in the village are responsible for their own affairs.
Children and grandchildren have not been liberated to engage in farming and textile,
And learn to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees.
[Notes]
1. Miscellaneous interest: a poem written at will, with no fixed theme.
2. Farming: weeding.
3. Achievements of hemp: Twisting hemp into thread.
4. Responsible for each other: Everyone has a certain job.
5. Unsolved: I don't understand.
6. Provide: engage and participate.
[Brief analysis]
Pastoral Miscellanies of Four Seasons is a group of large-scale family poems written by the poet after he retired from his hometown. There are 60 poems in total, which describe the rural scenery and farmers' life in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and also reflect the exploitation and hardship of farmers. This is one of them, which describes a scene of rural summer life.
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 in contact with and love labor since childhood, so they "learn to grow melons under the shade of mulberry trees" and learn to grow 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.
Quatrains (two orioles)
Du Fu
Two orioles sing green willows,
A line of egrets flew into the sky,
The window contains autumn snow in Xiling,
Mambo Wu Dong Wan Li Ship.
[Notes]
1. Egret: The name of a waterfowl, Egret.
2. Xiling: refers to Minshan Mountain.
3. Autumn snow: snow that does not melt all year round.
4. stop: stop.
[Brief analysis]
This poem was written by Du Fu when he lived in Huanhuaxi Caotang, Chengdu, and * * * wrote four quatrains. This poem is the third of them, describing the spring scenery in front of Huanhuaxi Caotang.
This poem consists of two neat antitheses. The first two sentences, "Two orioles singing green willows and a row of egrets flying into the sky", are about moving scenery. In front of the hall, orioles sing among the green willows, and get a close look; Egrets fly into the sky, which is a kind of vision. The pictures of these scenes are colorful: yellow birds, green willows, snow-white egrets and blue sky, and the four colors are impressive. Not only the color, but also the sound, coupled with Ying Ge's euphemistic singing, is really a vibrant and beautiful scene.
The last two sentences, "The window contains the autumn snow in Xiling, and the boating gate in Wan Li, Wu Dong", describe the static scenery. The two verbs in the first two sentences are "Ming" and "Shang", and the last two sentences are "Han" and "Bo", which are dynamic and static. The third sentence is about the snow in Xiling, which is a vision. The word "Han" is personified, which is very appropriate and vivid; "Qian Qiu" points out a long time and shows its tranquility. The fourth sentence says that the boat in front of the door is close-up. "Berthing", berthing, but this berthing is a ship about to sail for Soochow, and there is movement in silence; "Wan Li" illustrates the vastness of space.
Every sentence of this poem contains a scene, in which the dynamic scene, the static scene, the close-up scene and the distant view alternately set off, forming a colorful, beautiful and peaceful picture scroll, which is refreshing and never tires of reading.