The poem describes the cheerful labor scene of farmers after the autumn harvest, and expresses the author's joy in harvest and praise for labor. The newly-built mud dam is as flat as a mirror. On the sunny day after first frost, every household beat the recovered rice, waving flail and beating rice, while singing and laughing. Flail rice like spring thunder, rolling until dawn.
Poetry is as clear as words without colorful words, but the scene of labor is just around the corner. Flail is a threshing tool, which consists of two sticks, one thick and the other thin, the thick one is long and the thin one is short. The thick one is called Liang Gaimu and the thin one is called Liang Gaier. Generally made of hardwood, such as pyracantha (commonly known as red seed).
Tie two wooden sticks to it with a rope, hold the thick one in your hand, and wave the long one to thresh the rice or buckwheat.
Original poem:
Autumn (Season 8)
Song Fan Chengda
Newly-built fields are mud and flat, and every family cooks, and first frost is clear.
Laughter thundered and flail rang all night.
Interpretation of vernacular Chinese:
The ground of the new yard is as flat as a mirror. Every family cooks on a sunny day after frost. The farmers are laughing and singing. The sound in the yard is as light as thunder. Farmers beat rice with flail all night until dawn.
Extended data:
Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany is a group of large-scale pastoral poems written by Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, after he retired to his hometown. It consists of five parts: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter. In this series of poems, the poet Fan Chengda described the labor of ancient peasants.
This group of poems ***60 seven-character quatrains, with 12 poems as a group, is divided into rural life of wing chun day, late spring day, summer day, autumn day and winter day. In the history of ancient poetry, most of the pastoral poems are actually poems of literati expressing their seclusion. For example, the pastoral scenery in the poems of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran all appeared as the externalization of the poet's quiet mood.
Except for a few Tao poems, farming, the most important content of rural life in ancient pastoral poems, was neglected, and the occasional woodcutter and farmer were often endowed with the character of hermit.
Poets in the Tang Dynasty, such as Yuan Zhen and Zhang Ji, often wrote the peasants' production, life and sufferings into Yuefu poems such as Peasant Ci and Tianjia Ci. There is no description of pastoral scenery in these poems, and they are not used to being idyllic.
Fan Chengda creatively combined the above two traditions and comprehensively and truly described all kinds of details of rural life. Fan Chengda successfully transformed the traditional theme, making pastoral poetry a veritable poem reflecting rural life.
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