1, at noon on weeding day, sweat dripped down the soil. Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard? -"Two Poems for Farmers" by Li Shen in Tang Dynasty
At noon in midsummer, under the scorching sun, farmers were still working and sweat dripped into the soil. Who would have thought that the rice in our bowl was full of the blood and sweat of farmers?
2. When you go out during the day, you are numb at night, and the children in the village are in charge. Although the children don't plow and weave, they also learn a kind of melon in the shade of mulberry trees. -Fan Chengda's "Miscellaneous Seven in Summer Village" in Song Dynasty
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.
The Tian family has less leisure, and people are twice as busy in May. In the evening, the south wind rises and the wheat turns yellow. -Bai Juyi's "Looking at Wheat Cutting" in the Tang Dynasty
Farmers seldom have free months. When May comes, people are busier. At night, the south wind blew, and the wheat covered on the ridge was ripe and yellow.
4. The chicken sings three times and arranges rice bowls and tea bottles. My lover is still afraid of urging early ploughing, so he pulls the awning window to see Xiaoxing. -Hua Yue's "Tianjia Temple"
The rooster has crowed three times, and it is almost dawn. The early peasant woman is preparing breakfast, preparing tea bottles and rice bowls for the ground. Afraid of urging kouta to get up early, the sleepy husband opened the window of Mao Peng to see if the morning star was already shining in the sky.
5, looking at Jinmamen, Laoge Caiqiao Road. -Meng Haoran's pastoral poems in the Tang Dynasty
Look at the Golden Horse Gate through your eyes, walk along Caiqiao Road, and sing the song of labor.