During the day, weeding in the fields and rubbing hemp thread at home at night, the men and women in the village took on all the housework.
Although the children don't plow and weave, they also learn a kind of melon in the shade of mulberry trees.
Brief introduction of the author
Fan Chengda (1126-1193): a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. The word "Neng" means "Juvenile Yuan", "Friend", "Mountain Lay Man" and "Shihu Lay Man", who is from Wuxian, Suzhou. Shaoxing Jinshi, who served as magistrate, Jingjiang mansion and Guangnan West Road, was appointed as the minister to Sichuan and participated in the discussion of state affairs. Kim was once strong and unyielding and was killed several times. In his later years, he retired to his hometown of Shihu and died silently. His poems have a wide range of themes, and he is as famous as Lu You, Yang Wanli and You Mao, and is also called "the four great poets of the Southern Song Dynasty". Another word. His works are quite rich, including Shihu Jushi, Shihu Ci, Gui, Wu and so on.
Fan Chengda's works had a great influence at that time, especially in the early Qing Dynasty, and there was a saying that "Jiannan is home to the lake" ("Jiannan" refers to Lu You's "Jiannan Poetry Draft"). His poems are light in style, but easy to learn. Sixty pieces of Miscellaneous Poems of Four Seasons in his later years are his representative works, and Qian Zhongshu called them "masterpieces of China's ancient pastoral poems" in Selected Notes on Song Poetry. He is also a famous poet, perhaps a geographer. Many works have been handed down, such as Shihu Poetry, Shihu Ci, Gui Lu, Lu, Wu Lu and Wu Junzhi.
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Cutting land during the day and rubbing hemp at night.
Both men and women on the farm help their parents to do things, do housework and let their parents rest.
Where do children know about farming and weaving?
Also learn from adults to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees.
Poetry appreciation
This poem describes a scene of rural life in early summer.
The first sentence "Going out to plow during the day, getting hemp at night" means: Going out to cut the field during the day and rubbing hemp thread at night. "Success" means rubbing. "Tillage" means weeding. In early summer, the seedlings need weeding. This is what men should do. "Ji Ma" refers to women who rub twine and weave cloth at night after finishing other work during the day. This sentence directly wrote the labor scene. The second sentence "the children in the village mind their own affairs" refers to men and women. The whole poem uses the tone of an old farmer, and "children" refers to young people. "Being in charge" means that both men and women are not allowed to be idle and mind their own business. In the third sentence, "children and grandchildren are not prepared for farming and weaving", and "children and grandchildren" refer to those children who can neither farm nor weave, but are not idle. They have been in contact with and love labor since childhood, so they "learn to grow melons under the shade of mulberry trees" and learn to grow melons under the lush mulberry trees. This is a common phenomenon in rural areas, but it is quite distinctive. The conclusion shows the naive interest of rural children. With a fresh style, the poet described the tense working atmosphere in rural areas in early summer in a more delicate way, which made it interesting to read.