The days are getting longer, everyone is busy in the fields, no one passes the fence, only dragonflies and butterflies fly around the fence.
Twenty-five poems in Sixty Pastoral Poems of the Four Seasons are as follows: plums are golden and apricot are fat, wheat is gray and cauliflower is sparse. No one has ever crossed the fence, but dragonflies and butterflies can fly
In early summer, golden plums hang all over the branches, apricots become bright and full, white flowers bloom in the ears of wheat in the field, and rape flowers almost fall and bear seeds. The days are getting longer and longer. Everyone is busy in the fields. No one passes the fence, only dragonflies and butterflies fly around the fence.
Appreciation of the whole poem:
This poem is about the rural scenery of Jiangnan in early summer. In the poem, plums are yellow, apricots are fat, wheat is white, and cauliflower is sparse, which describes the characteristics of rural scenery in the south in summer, with rich flowers and fruits and tangible colors.
In the first two sentences, plums and apricots are fat, wheat and cabbage are thin and brightly colored. The third sentence of the poem describes the situation of farmers' labor from the side: in early summer, farmers are busy with farming, so they go out early and return late, so they rarely see pedestrians during the day. The last sentence uses "only dragonflies and butterflies are flying" to set off the silence in the village, which makes it even quieter. The last two sentences, the days are long and the people are sparse, dragonflies fly and butterflies dance, making the movement quiet.
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.