Two Poems of Agricultural Compassion from Li Shen in Tang Dynasty.
In spring, as long as you sow a seed, you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.
There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death.
At noon in summer, the sun is very hot, farmers are still working, and beads are dripping into the soil.
Who would have thought that our bowl of rice and grain are full of the blood and sweat of farmers?
translate
As long as a seed is sown in spring, a lot of food can be harvested in autumn.
All over the world, there are no fields that are not cultivated, and there are no fields that are not cultivated, but there are still farmers working, but they starve to death.
At noon in midsummer, when the sun was shining, farmers were still working and sweat dripped into the soil.
Who would have thought that every grain of rice in our bowl was bought by farmers' hard work?
To annotate ...
Benjamin: What a pity. There is sympathy here. A poem is two ancient poems. The sequential versions of these two poems are different.
Xiaomi: generally refers to cereals.
Autumn Harvest: A "Qiu Cheng". Son: refers to grain particles.
Four seas: refers to the whole country. Idle field: a field that has not been cultivated.
Y: still.
Grass: a general term for cereal plants.
Rice: a "rice". A generic term for cooked food.