Fan Song Chengda
Farming 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.
Precautions:
(1) miscellaneous feeling.
(2) children and grandchildren: children.
(3) Unknown: I don't know.
(4) in favor: participate.
(5) Next: near.
Appreciate:
Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous is the representative work of Fan Chengda, one of the "Four Great Masters in Southern Song Dynasty". At the age of sixty-one, Fan Chengda wrote sixty pastoral poems during his convalescence in Shihu, which were divided into five groups: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter, with 12 poems in each group. The overall theme was "Four Seasons Pastoral Music".
Poetry inadvertently shows the industriousness and simplicity of farmers through the innocent and lively actions of children, which is more childlike. The first sentence contrasts day and night, showing us a picture of rural men and women plowing fields, producing fruits and painting day and night-men weeding in the fields during the day and women rubbing hemp thread at home at night. At the turn of the pen, the children were naive and didn't know how to plant land and spin yarn, but watching their parents busy, they felt very interesting and refused to be idle. They also learned to plant melons under lush mulberry trees. The whole poem describes the intense working life of rural men and women day and night, and shows the quality that innocent and lovely children love labor. The language is simple and plain, there is no trace of deliberate pursuit, and the writing is fresh and light, vivid and natural, as if handy. It is like a vivid picture of rural customs, full of strong rural local flavor in the south of the Yangtze River.