No matter underground or on the mountain, where there are flowers in full bloom, there are bees busy.
Bee, you harvest flowers to make nectar. Who has worked hard and who wants to taste the sweetness?
Interpretation of vernacular:
No matter on the flat ground, on the mountain, where flowers bloom in the wind, there are bees running.
Bee, you picked all the flowers and turned them into nectar. Who are you working for and who do you want to taste the sweetness?
Extended data writing background:
A seven-character quatrain written by Luo Yin, a poet in Tang Dynasty. This is a poem about objects. The first two sentences say that bees fly to the top of the mountain, experience infinite beauty, take pains and take risks. The last two sentences say that bees pick flowers and make honey for people to enjoy, which is hard and sweet. By describing the natural phenomenon that bees gather flowers to make honey for people to enjoy, this poem contrasts the reality that the fruits of labor of the broad masses of working people are brutally exploited by the feudal ruling class, and shows the poet's sympathy for the working people.
At the end of the 13th year of Dazhong (859), Luo Yin went to Beijing to take the Jinshi exam. After many years, he still didn't get the first place, which is the so-called "tenth place is not the first place." The poet was disappointed with the examination system and the court at that time. In this mood, he was angry to see people working hard in the fields and some court officials getting something for nothing. This is probably why Luo Yin wrote this poem "Bees" to satirize those who get something for nothing.
Appreciation of articles:
This poem uses narrative and discussion techniques, but the discussion is not explicitly issued, but is said in a rhetorical tone. The first two sentences are mainly narrative, while the last two sentences are mainly discussion. The last two sentences, three main narratives and four main discussions. "Picking a hundred flowers" means "hard work" and "becoming honey" means "sweetness". However, due to the difference between the main narrative and the main exposition, the last two sentences have the meaning of repetition and have no sense of repetition.
It turns out that the rhetorical question only means: who are you sweet for and who are you willing to work for? But it is divided into two questions: "Who are you working for?" "Sweet for whom"? Also repeated and not repeated. Obviously, hard work belongs to oneself, and sweetness belongs to others. Repeated chanting makes people deeply moved. The poet is full of pity.