If you plant a millet in spring, you will reap 10,000 seeds in autumn.
There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death.
Author's brief introduction (772-846), Han nationality, from Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province, and from Wucheng County (Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province), is the great-grandson of Emperor Li. When I was young, I studied at Huishan Temple in Wuxi, Runzhou (now Jiangsu).
At the age of 27, he was admitted to middle school and became a teaching assistant. He became close friends with Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi. The most brilliant part of his life is poetry. He is a participant in the new Yuefu movement, which has great influence in the history of literature. He wrote 20 new poems about Yuefu, which have been lost.
There are two poems entitled "Compassion for Farmers": "At noon on the day of weeding, sweat drips down the soil. Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard. " It is well known to all women and children, and it has been told through the ages. The Complete Tang Poetry contains four volumes of Tang poetry.
Writing background According to the records of Dai Fan's Yunxi Friendship in the Tang Dynasty and Lu Shu's Weichuan 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). Because he witnessed farmers working all day when he was young, he had no food and clothing. With grief and indignation, he wrote two poems of "Compassion for Peasants" which have been told through the ages.
This poem vividly depicts the fruitful scenes in various places, highlighting the realistic problem that farmers have worked hard to get a bumper harvest, but they have starved to death empty-handed.