1. Watching mowing wheat
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
Tian Jia was less idle in the moon, and people were twice as busy in May.
at night, when the south wind comes, the wheat turns yellow.
the mother-in-law pays for food, and the child carries the kettle pulp.
She goes with Xiang Tian, and Ding Zhuang is in Nangang.
it's full of rustic heat, and my back is burning in the sun.
I don't know the heat, but I regret the long summer.
Translation
Farmers have no leisure all year round, but they are doubly busy in May. A warm south wind blows at night, and the wheat in the field is covered with ridges and cooked yellow. Women carry food in baskets, and children carry pots full of water and soup. Accompanying to the fields to deliver meals, men work in Nanshan Hill. The feet were fumigated by the hot air on the ground, and the back was baked with hot sunshine. Exhausted, I don't feel the heat, just cherish the summer.
2. Two Poems of Benevolence for Agriculture
Tang Dynasty: Li Shen
Sow a millet in spring and reap ten thousand seeds in autumn.
there are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death.
when weeding is at noon, sweat drips down the soil.
who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard?
translation
As long as you sow a seed in spring, you can harvest a lot of food in autumn. All over the world, there are no fields left uncultivated and uncultivated, and toiling farmers will still starve to death. At noon in midsummer, the scorching sun, farmers are still working, sweat dripping into the soil. Who would have thought that the rice in our bowl is full of the blood and sweat of farmers?
3. Tian Shang
Tang Dynasty: Cui Daorong
It was rainy and the fields were white and plowed in the middle of the night.
people are full of strength, but the east is extremely unclear.
translation
The spring rain has been enough, so that even the high fields are full of white water. In order to scramble for seeds, farmers braved the rain in hemp fiber and came to the fields to farm at midnight. By the time people and cows have exhausted their strength, it is far from dawn.
4. Yong Tian Jia/Shang Tian Jia
Tang Dynasty: Nie Yizhong
sold new silk in February, and mowed new valleys in May.
cure the sore in front of your eyes, but gouge out your heart.
I wish the king's heart would turn into a bright candle.
don't take the Kirara banquet, just take the escape room.
Translation
The February silkworm has not cocooned, and it has already become a debt-paying thing; May valley is not mature, and it has been sold reluctantly. This is to dig out the good meat in my heart to repair the sore in front of me. I hope that the heart of the emperor will become a candle of light. Not according to the luxurious banquet, but according to the empty houses of the victims.
5. Farmhouse
Tang Dynasty: Yan Renyu
In the middle of the night, Huer took advantage of the ploughing, and the cows were unable to walk.
when people don't know the hardships of farmers, they will be called Tanaka Valley.
translation
At midnight, I called the children and hurried to the fields to plow the soil before dawn. The emaciated old cow was dragging the plow in the fields, and it was getting slower and slower, so tired that it was almost impossible to drag the plow. Most people don't know the hard work of the farmers, but they say that the rice and grain in the field grow naturally.