The symbolic significance of Mu Dan's praise for the image of farmers

In the second part of the poem, the poet focuses on the image of a farmer, who is the epitome of thousands of farmers in Qian Qian, China. He is both a child and a father, and he is the pillar of the family. He works as hard as his ancestors, and he is burdened with "hope" and "disappointment". Turning up the same soil, dissolving his ancestors, and freezing on the roadside is the same image of suffering.

This poem depicts the image of the people at the bottom of China who are silent and patient in the face of disasters. Seeing that the country was in danger, he didn't "say" or "shout", but took the simplest and most direct way, "put down the ancient hoe", believed in the term "country", and joined the anti-Japanese war team without hesitation and "dissolved into death".

These farmers who live at the bottom of society put down their "small families" to fight for "everyone", which made the poets awe. The poet believes that it is with such a group of farmers that the country will rise and the dawn will come.

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Creation background

This poem was written in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's most difficult "stalemate". At that time, the Chinese nation was not only burdened with the heaviness, poverty and suffering accumulated in history, but also awakened in the bonfire of anti-Japanese war. Although the people were in rags and soaked in blood, they fought bloody battles to get rid of humiliation.

As a young poet, Mu Dan deeply felt the suffering of the times and saw the rise of the people, thus seeing the hope of the nation. He grasped the characteristics of this era and sang for it, showing the poet's concern for reality and love for the motherland and the people.