Working in the fields during the day and planting hemp at night, the children of the village are each responsible for their own affairs.
Meaning: Go to the fields to weed during the day, and twist twine at home at night. Men and women in the village each have their own housework.
From: "Pastoral Miscellany in Four Seasons·Thirty-one" by Fan Chengda [Song Dynasty]
Working in the fields during the day and planting hemp at night, the children of the village are responsible for their own affairs.
The children and grandchildren are still working for farming and weaving, and they are also learning to grow melons near the mulberry tree.
Translation: Weeding in the fields during the day and twisting twine at home at night. Men and women in the village each have their own housework. Although the children did not know how to plow the fields and weave, they still learned to grow melons under the shade of the mulberry trees. Appreciation
The first sentence "I work in the field during the day and work on hemp at night" means: I go to the field to weed during the day and twist the hemp thread at night. "Tilting" means weeding. In early summer, the rice seedlings need to be weeded. This is what men do. "Ji Ma" means that after women finish other work during the day, they knead twine and weave it into cloth at night. This sentence directly describes the labor scene.
The second sentence is "The children of the village are in charge of their own families." "Children" refers to men and women. The whole poem uses the tone of old farmers, and "children" refers to young people. "Head of the family" means that both men and women have no time to spare, and each has his or her own business. The third sentence "Children and grandchildren are not yet available for plowing and weaving." "Children and grandchildren" refers to those children. They don't know how to farm or weave, but they are not idle either.
People have been influenced by it since childhood, so they "learned to grow melons near the mulberry trees", that is, they learned to grow melons under the lush mulberry trees. This is a common phenomenon in rural areas, but it is quite unique. The conclusion expresses the innocence of rural children.