"After cutting the grain at noon, sweat dripped into the soil. Whoever reads Chinese food on the plate works hard. " This Tang poem is catchy to read, and it is a well-known sentence for women and children. However, who wrote this poem?
The author of this poem is Li Shen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Li Shen (772~846), a native of Wuxi (present-day Jiangsu), was a scholar of Yuanhe, one of the advocates and practitioners of the New Yuefu Movement in the Middle Tang Dynasty, and had close contacts with famous literati Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen. Yuan Zhen said that Li Shen said, "I gave my good friend Li Gong a hammer, and I gave 20 new poems to Yuefu. The so-called elegance is not empty. Articles are combined with the times, and songs and poems are combined with each other. " Obviously, Li Shen's poetic style is consistent with that of Weeding at Noon. The Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty contains Li Shen's poems, which are called Two Antique Poems, also known as Two Peasants Poems. One of them is "Harvesting the Valley at Noon", and the other poem is: "A drop in the spring brings ten thousand kinds of Qiu Lai. There are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death. " These two poems have the same meaning.
Nie, another poet in the Tang Dynasty, should be the real author of this poem. The main reasons for this statement are as follows: First, The Complete Poem of Tang Dynasty included these two five-character quatrains under Nie He's name, while The Two Poems of Ancient Style did not have a mutual understanding explanation, and a footnote was added to Nie's Two Poems of Tian Jia, saying that four poems, such as "mowing the grass at noon", were poems. Later, people chose to pay attention to Nie's poems and simply didn't take the four sentences of "weeding", which caused misinformation. 2. Photocopy the Song Dynasty engraving "Fang Quan Beizu" and list the poem "Chuhe" under Nie's name. The full text of the poem "Two Poems of Tianjia" is as follows: "The father plowed the original field, and the son cut the mountain to waste; The grain is not obvious in June, and the housekeeper has repaired the warehouse. When weeding is at noon, sweat drips down the mountain; It's hard for anyone to see the Chinese food on the plate. Sell new silk in February and new valley in May; Cured the sore in front of me, but dug out my heart. I hope the king's heart will turn into a bright candle; Not according to the banquet that continues the front edge, but according to the house that escaped. " However, this book only contains four sentences, such as "planting a millet in spring", which shows that the ancients awarded this poem to Nie. Third, Nie Zhongyi (837~? ), the word Tan Zhi, Hedong (now Shanxi Yongji West), Xian Tong Jinshi. "Chronicle of Tang Poetry" said: "(Nie) worked hard to prepare, and it was especially hard to have fun in the bitter." Nie was born in poverty, and only worked as a county magistrate and a small official after becoming an official. He knows the sufferings of farmers better, so he has such poems that are close to life. Nie's poems are included in "Full Hall Text * * *", and Tian Jia's poems account for a quarter. It seems that the author of the poem "mowing the grass in the afternoon" belongs to Nie.
Both of the above statements are reasonable, but it is generally believed that the author is Li Shen, which is actually inconclusive.