If you are farming, you can hope for more rain.
If it rains more, basil will grow.
I also think about the urgency of official duties,
I would rather know about the hard work of hoeing.
The sun is shining brightly at noon in the pavilion,
The neighbor is intoxicated.
When the village officials are not at the door,
The grain and millet seedlings grow taller.
Only those who work hard,
have repeatedly worked for the state and county.
After hoeing the fields and abandoning them,
I am in love with my hometown and can’t bear to run away.
The mountain gate officials are urging each other,
The neighboring houses are full of warehouses and valleys.
You can't complain to your neighbor,
Weep to the fields all day long.
Appreciation of Sima Zha's poems
"Resentment for Hoeing Weeds" is one of the more successful poems by Sima Zha. The whole poem reflects the ambivalence and resentment of a poor man who was forced to give up farming through the description of a poor man who had to scramble for time to hoe weeds and eliminate famine when the weather started to clear up after a continuous rain, and was forced to give up farming by paying official taxes and doing corvees. The heavy taxes and corvee brought suffering to the people.
The two sentences "Farming in the hope of more rain, and the more rain will grow basil" describe the ambivalent mood of the people who have long been in drought and long for rain, but too much rain will lead to floods. The word "hope" expresses the farmer's infinite hope for a good harvest. The word "hope" expresses the farmers' infinite hope for a good harvest. The use of two "rainy" words in conjunction with each other highlights the situation where drought is eliminated and waterlogging becomes the main contradiction. Out. These two sentences describe the contradiction between human wishes and natural disasters.
"I also think about the urgency of the official tax, but I would rather know the hard work of the hoe", which means that the common people are only worried about the pain of the official's urgent tax, but they don't care about the hard work of eradicating the famine. The hardship of official duties is greater than the labor of hoeing. This actually expresses the resentment that man-made disasters are more severe than natural disasters.
"The sun shines brightly in the pavilion at noon, and the neighbor is intoxicated." The contrast method is used to vividly show the disparity between the hard work of the people "hoeing the fields at noon" and the indulgence of the rulers to the readers. before. On the one hand, they are grabbing time to eliminate famine, on the other hand, they are wasting precious time, living in drunkenness and dreaming, which prominently reflects the farmers' resentment towards the ruling class who eat without working.
"When the village officials don't come to the door, the crops and millet seedlings will grow taller." It means that even if the officials in the countryside don't come to take care of you, the crops in the fields will naturally thrive under the sweat of the people. Here, The common people's hatred for the village officials is implicit and deep, vividly displayed on the paper, showing the common people's vague sense of resistance.
"Those who work hard often work for the state and county." These two sentences follow the previous four sentences, expressing the farmers' resentment towards the idlers such as the village officials, and their resentment for being forced to abandon their homes. The dissatisfaction of leaving the fields to do corvee service. The word "Du" draws an insurmountable natural trench between the "hard workers" and the rulers and village officials, while the word "Duo" reveals the frequency of corvee from a quantitative perspective, which is one of the reasons for the common people's slander. one.
"After hoeing the fields and abandoning them, I love my hometown and can't bear to escape." It describes the ambivalence of the people who want to escape from the corvee and live in other places, but are also bound by their love for the fields and the soil. According to the "New Book of Tang" records, after the Anshi Rebellion, there were many corvees. "The people drained their blood and worshiped each other. They sent them every ten days and every month, without any rest. Because of their harshness, the officials cannibalized people... As a result, the world was exhausted and devastated." "Floating people" are wanderers, and the people have fled one after another. Less than 4 or 5% of the people live in the hometown, which shows that "tyranny is fiercer than tigers."
"When the officials go out to help each other, the neighboring houses are full of barns. The neighbors cannot complain, and they cry in the fields every day." It not only writes about the serious opposition between farmers and rulers who do not have the same language, but also writes It reveals the darkness of the reality that farmers have no way to complain.
This poem is full of the resentment of poor farmers against natural and man-made disasters. There is no word "resentment" in the poem, but the deep and broad resentment is embodied in sensible images. Through the images Show feelings. For example, the grievances against natural disasters are expressed as "the rain is heavy and the basil grows"; the grievances against the rulers are expressed as "the pavilion is bright and the sun shines brightly at noon, and the neighbor is intoxicated" and "the neighbor's house is full of warehouses and valleys"; the grievances against the country officials are The irony and resentment are depicted through "when the village officials are not at home, the grain and millet seedlings are proud of themselves" and "when the officials are out, they encourage each other", which makes people feel that the resentment is reasonable, sincere and touching.
Secondly, the poet is very good at portraying the contradictory psychological state of the people. The first and second sentences, the ambivalence of hoping for more rain and complaining about the long grass, reflect the contradiction between man and nature; the third, fourth, eleventh and twelfth sentences show the tax and corvee forcing people to be displaced and the villagers' love for the fields. The contradiction of soil... It is through this multi-layered and multi-faceted portrayal that the depth of pain and resentment in the inner world of the people can be fully expressed.