No one has ever crossed the fence, but dragonflies and butterflies can fly
-"Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous" (Song) Fan Chengda
Four Seasons' Pastoral Fun 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 is divided into five parts: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter, with 60 songs in each part 12. Poetry describes the rural scenery and farmers' life in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and also reflects the exploitation and suffering suffered by farmers.
This poem is the twenty-fifth poem in a series, which is about the rural scenery in the south of the Yangtze River in early summer. It uses plums, apricots, wheat flowers and cauliflower to describe the characteristics, flowers, colors and shapes of the rural scenery in the south in summer. The last sentence, there is movement in stillness, which makes it quieter. Dragonflies and butterflies dance to contrast stillness and movement.