Four Seasons Pastoral Translation

It is the season when plums are golden and apricots are fat. The ears of wheat are covered with white flowers, and the rape flowers are almost gone, and seeds are being set. The days in summer are very long, no one passes the fence, everyone is busy in the fields, only dragonflies and butterflies are dancing leisurely.

Four seasons pastoral miscellaneous interest

Song Dynasty: Fan Chengda

Plum golden apricot fat, wheat white, cauliflower thin.

No one has ever crossed the fence, but dragonflies and butterflies can fly

A brief introduction to the pastoral interests of the four seasons

Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous is a set of pastoral poems written by Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, after his retirement. It depicts the rural scenery and farmers' life in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and vividly outlines the dynamic picture of pastoral farming. "Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany" is divided into five parts: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each part has 12 songs and * * * 60 songs. It describes different scenes in different seasons in the countryside, just like a long picture of rural life, full of strong rural flavor, showing the poet's love for rural life, and his writing is fresh, light, smooth and natural.