Write an ancient poem about crops
Two Poems for Peasants
Li Shen in the Tang Dynasty
Sow a millet in spring and reap ten thousand seeds in autumn.
there are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death.
when weeding is at noon, sweat drips down the soil.
who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard?
translation
As long as you sow a seed in spring, you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.
All over the world, there are no fields left uncultivated and uncultivated, and toiling farmers will still starve to death.
At noon in midsummer, the farmers are still working in the scorching sun, and sweat drips into the soil.
who would have thought that the rice in our bowl is full of the sweat and blood of farmers?
Appreciation
At the beginning of the first poem, it described the bumper harvest concretely and vividly by turning "one millet" into "ten thousand seeds", and praised the farmers' labor with "planting" and "harvesting". The third sentence, by extension, shows that within the four seas, wasteland becomes fertile land, which, combined with the first two sentences, constitutes a vivid scene of fruitful results and "gold" everywhere. "Enlightening Man" is for a more powerful "hair". These three poems show the great contribution and endless creativity of the working people with progressive brushwork, which makes the following knot more dignified and more painful. "Farmers still starve to death", which not only makes the content coherent, but also highlights the problem.
Creation background
According to the records of Fan Yi's Yunxi Youyi and Old Tang Shu Lu Wei Chuan in the Tang Dynasty, it can be roughly presumed that this group of poems was written by Li Shen in the 15th year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (799).
Author's brief introduction
Li Shen (772-846), a native of Bozhou (now Anhui), was born in Wucheng (now Huzhou, Zhejiang) and grew up in Wuxi, Runzhou (now Jiangsu). The word is vertical. At the age of 27, he was admitted to the middle school and became a teaching assistant. He made close friends with Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi. The most shining part of his life was poetry. He was a participant in the New Yuefu Movement, which had a great influence in the history of literature. He has written 2 new poems about Yuefu, which have been lost. There are two poems entitled "Compassion for Farmers": "It's noon on the day of weeding, and sweat drips down the soil. Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard." Moxibustion population, known to women and children, has been passed down through the ages. The Complete Tang Poetry contains four volumes of its poems.