Plums turned golden and apricots gained weight. The golden cauliflower in the field in spring has now fallen, leaving only sporadic residual flowers; At first glance, it is snow-white wheat flowers. At noon, the sun is high above, and the shadow of the fence is getting shorter and shorter as the sun rises, and no one passes by. It was quiet all around, only dragonflies and butterflies flew by.
Original poem:
Plum golden apricot fat, wheat white, cauliflower thin.
No one has ever crossed the fence, but dragonflies and butterflies can fly
Appreciate:
This poem by Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, describes the rural scenery of Jiangnan in early summer. In the poem, plums are yellow, apricots are fat, wheat is white, and cauliflower is sparse, which describes the characteristics of rural scenery in the south in summer, with rich flowers and fruits and tangible colors.
This poem describes the situation of farmers' labor from the side: in early summer, farmers are busy with farming, so they go out early and return late, so they rarely see pedestrians during the day. The last sentence set off the silence in the village, which was even more silent.
Extended data:
Among Fan Chengda's poems, Jin Jixing's poems and pastoral poems are the most valuable. During the ten years when Fan Chengda retired from Shihu, he wrote many pastoral poems, among which The Four Seasons of Pastoral Music is the most famous. 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. Apart from a few pottery poems, ancient pastoral poems are the most important content of rural life.
Farming is neglected, and the occasional woodcutter and farmer are 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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