Two poems, * * *, are the early works of Li Shen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. These two poems profoundly exposed the cruel exploitation of the ruling class, described the miserable life of the workers and showed the poet's deep sympathy for the peasants. The poem "Compassion for Peasants" is short in system, popular in language, full of tolerance and precise in conception. Like two round and bright pearls, they shine with dazzling light and have been praised by people for thousands of years.
At the beginning of "Antique", the poet aimed the artistic lens at a corner of the farmland, and successively photographed two groups of pictures of "spring planting" and "autumn harvest": in the continuous spring, farmers waved hoes and planted grain seeds hopefully; In the golden autumn of October, they sweated like rain and harvested again, which was quite fruitful. In these two sets of shots and the first dialogue in the poem, the poet turned "a grain of millet" into "10 thousand seeds", highlighting the bumper harvest of farmland. From spring sowing to autumn harvest, it has aroused readers' extensive association and made readers realize the hardships of farmers' long-term labor. The phrase "there are no idle fields in the four seas" once again emphasizes the grand occasion of harvest. "Four Seas" describes a wide range of farming; "No idle land" means that the land utilization rate is extremely high. It is not difficult to imagine that "one grain" won "10 thousand" and "there is no idle field in all the seas" The amazing harvest shows that the labor paid by farmers in large-scale farming is also amazing.
But in the society at that time, a bumper harvest could only bring double enjoyment to the exploiters, but it could not change the miserable fate of the workers at all. "Farmers still starve to death" is the final result of those farmers' hard work all year round. This unexpected conclusion makes readers think a lot. Through this implicit and meaningful poem, the poet reveals the infinite pain that farmers can't find a way out no matter what they get, reflects the sharp contradiction between the exploiters and the exploited at that time, shows the ruling class's great hatred of extortion and waste of money, and embodies the poet's deep sympathy for farmers.