Farmers weed at noon.
Soon I was sweating like a pig. ?
Who knows the food on the tray?
Thank them for a hard day?
I. Original text
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?
Second, Chinese translation
The farmers are working hard. Just after noon, sweat drops into the soil under the ears of grain.
Who knows that every meal on the plate is the hard work of farmers.
Third, the source
Quan Tang Shi
Extended data
First, the creative background
According to Fan Gang's Yunxi Friendship in the Tang Dynasty and Lu Shu's Biography of Wei in the old Tang Dynasty, it can be roughly inferred that this group of poems was written by Shen Li in the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (799).
Second, the appreciation of works
Compared with those famous poems, this little poem is not a famous one in the flowery Tang Dynasty, but it is widely spread, known to all women and children, and it is not unreasonable to be recited by people.
The contents of these two poems are the most familiar things people often come into contact with. However, you don't really know what you are most familiar with. There are many things in life that you turn a blind eye to. If someone tries to enlighten you, explain the essence, or point out some truth involved, you will feel very eye-catching and clear, thus deepening your understanding.
Three. Brief introduction of the author
Li Shen (772-846), the word Gong Chui. Originally from Qiaocheng County, Bozhou (now Gucheng Town, Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province). Tang dynasty prime minister, poet, Li's great-grandson, secretary of the Central Secretariat.
Shen Li lost his father at the age of six and moved to Wuxi, Runzhou with his mother. Thirty-five-year-old, a scholar, was added as a teaching assistant in Guo Zi. Later, he served as assistant minister of Zhongshu, right servant of Shangshu, and ambassador of Huainan. He died in Yangzhou in the sixth year of Huichang (846) at the age of 74. Posthumously awarded to Qiu, posthumous title "Wen Su".
Li Shen made close friends with Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi, and was a participant in the New Yuefu Movement. He wrote 20 new poems about Yuefu, which have been lost. As a representative, there are two poems in "Compassion for Peasants": "Weeding at noon, sweat dripping down the soil. Who knows that every grain is hard. " The Complete Tang Poetry contains four volumes of Tang poetry.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Two Poems for Farmers