Life is just garlic and wild onions scattered with soil.
This is a twine rubbed in water.
The daytime is 4,000 silent nights.
It's the sound of a donkey hitting a bucket.
It was a rainy day when the poplars creaked.
Open and close my tired dreams.
Life is an apricot in your mouth, which can quench your thirst.
This is a silhouette of a man carrying wheat in the hot sun of a mountain garden.
The sky is an umbrella-like shade.
Climb from my sore arm to the ground.
Day is a pitcher for storing sweet thoughts.
Sweat and tears poured out and choked my throat.
Mei Shaojing is a poetess. She once jumped the queue from Beijing to settle in the northern Shaanxi Plateau. She has an unforgettable experience of rural life in northern Shaanxi, which is backward, closed, monotonous and poor. Although the poem "What Day" is not long, it shows the bitterness and heaviness of that experience in the poet's heart.
In the first section, the author compares the days to garlic and wild onions, and compares them to hemp ropes soaked in water and tightly rubbed, vividly revealing the poverty of life there. Life is like the saying in Beijing: "Hemp rope is tight in water." Then, the author grasps the characteristics of drought and water shortage in northern Shaanxi, and compares the days to the thumping sound in the bucket when the donkey is carrying water in the dark, so that readers can see such a picture: the land is dry and yellow, farmers are driving the tired donkey on the winding mountain road in the plateau, and the bucket on the back of the donkey is thumping. Such pictures have appeared in movies, TV series and painters' works. When it appears in the writer's poems, it is dignified because it is linked with Four Thousand Silent Nights. The author jumped the queue for ten years, and it has been ten years since I saw such a picture. The situation of farmers lacking water and drinking water in northern Shaanxi has also lasted for ten years. This can't help but make readers think about whether the situation there has changed today. The poem also mentions the creaking poplars' door axes in rainy days, the green apricots in the mouth to quench their thirst, and the people working in the hot sun. These images summarize the monotony of farmers' life and the hardships of labor in northern Shaanxi. When the familiar images of these poets were displayed one by one, she could no longer restrain her emotional impulse, so the image of the author appeared in the poem. Moving shadows represent moving time and lost years; A sore arm is a symbol of hard times and hard work. But for the poet, this is an unforgettable experience after all. The plateau left a beautiful youth for the poet, and he had cordial contacts with simple farmers and poets there. At this time, the emotion of the poem reached its climax. Now the sweat and tears flowing down the plateau make Hua Song feel sweet, which makes the poet's feelings hard to restrain and makes his throat choke. And in this suffocation, what appeared in the poet's mind? It should be four thousand days of plateau life, or more extended, thousands of years of plateau life. In this way, this poem turns the most common things in the life of farmers in the northern Shaanxi Plateau into profound images, and pushes the emotion of the whole poem to a climax step by step, so that a generation of educated youth who have had such a similar experience can't help but burst into tears when reading it.
The poem takes the form of a romantic trip to northern Shaanxi, with two sentences and one section, which is neat and sloppy. The rhyme of the two bars is changing, which makes it very musical to read.