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Whether it's flat or mountain top,
Infinite scenery is occupied.
After the flowers are collected into honey,
? Hard for whom, sweet for whom.
This poem about bees has a unique perspective. In the poem, bees worked hard all their lives, but they didn't get any return, which directly corresponded to the social reality in the late Tang Dynasty. Bees gather honey and come in and out of the flowers in spring, "whether on the flat ground or at the top of the mountain", and travel long distances tirelessly. On the surface, it occupies all the beautiful scenery in spring. Bees, on the other hand, don't enjoy the fruits of their labor after "picking flowers into honey". The last sentence of the poem coldly asks, "Who are you working for and who are you sweet for?" Overthrowing the envy of bees in the last article, the poet praised the hard-working workers and mercilessly satirized the exploiters who got something for nothing.