Southern Song Dynasty
Author Fan Chengda
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Tilling during the day, numb at night,
The children in the village are responsible for their own affairs.
Children and grandchildren have not been liberated to engage in farming and textile,
And learn to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees.
[Notes]
1. Miscellaneous interest: a poem written at will, with no fixed theme.
2. Farming: weeding.
3. Achievements of hemp: Twisting hemp into thread.
4. Responsible for each other: Everyone has a certain job.
5. Unsolved: I don't understand.
6. Provide: engage and participate.
Go out to plow during the day and come back to rub hemp rope at night.
Both men and women shoulder the burden of family.
Although children don't know it, they also work with it.
Learn to plant melons under mulberry trees at night.