Translation: The little shepherd boy rode on the back of the cow and slowly returned home. He held a piccolo and played it casually, with no fixed tune.
Source: "Village Evening" is a seven-character quatrain composed by the Southern Song Dynasty poet Lei Zhen. This is a poem describing the evening scene in the countryside: the image depicts a pond surrounded by grass, a red sunset that seems to be bitten by the mountains, and a child returning home from herding cows sitting on the back of the cow, playing casually on the piccolo. Playing tuneless tunes. The poet wrote on the scene, forming a picture of the rural evening scene full of life interest, expressing the poet's love and praise for the rural evening scene.
Appreciation:
This poem shows a picture of a shepherd boy riding a bull and returning home at night, which truly reaches the realm of "painting in poetry". This is a poem describing the evening scene in the countryside: In a pond covered with green grass all around, the water in the pond is full, the sun is about to set, and the red fireball seems to be eaten by the mountains (it is after sunset), Reflected in the ripples of the cold pool water. A boy who was returning home from herding cows was sitting on the back of the cow, playing a piccolo casually. The poet wrote on the spot, forming a picture of a rural evening scene full of life interest.
The first two sentences of the poem describe the background. The first sentence "The pond is full of grass" means that the season is already at the end of spring and the grass in the pond is already full. It refers to the famous sentence "The pond is full of spring grass" by Xie Lingyun's "Climbing the Pond and Going Up the Tower", but the word "man" is used to change the word "生", which shows that the pond is full of spring grass. The difference between the seasons. "Water Manpi" means that it is the rainy season, so the water rises very high. The second sentence writes about the setting sun in the distant mountains. The word "title" is used to vividly show the situation of the setting sun hanging on the top of the mountain. It is the same as the word "Tu" in Du Fu's "Mountain spitting out the moon" in "Si Geng Mountain", which shows the work of refining characters.
The word "immersion" is also used to write about the reflection of the green mountains in the water at sunset, which is very similar to Wang Anshi's sentence "Beishan loses green and rises to Hengpi". The poem revolves around the pond, with the green grass and clear water in the pond bringing out the green mountains and sunset. The word "immerse" is used as a link in the middle, making the pond appear lively and colorful.