Song Weng Juan
Full of mountains and green, full of white rivers,
In the regular sound, the rain began to rain like smoke.
There are few idle people in the countryside in April.
Only when sericulture is planted in the field.
Translation:
The fields on the hillside are lush with vegetation, and the water color in the rice fields reflects the skylight. The cuckoo is singing in the drizzle. April in the countryside is the busiest time. Just after sericulture, it is necessary to transplant rice seedlings again.
The whole poem highlights the intense and busy work in the countryside in April. The whole poem is like a colorful picture, which not only shows the poet's love and praise for the rural scenery, but also shows his praise for the working people and working life.
Extended data
April in the Country is a seven-character quatrain written by Weng Juan, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Weng Juan, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, continued his ancient ci. Yongjia (now Fangdouyan Village, Liushi Town, Yueqing City, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province) is also called "Yongjia Four Spirits" with Zhao Shixiu, Zhao Xu and Ji Xu, among which Weng Juan is the oldest. Because I only took part in the imperial examination once in my life and failed, I spent my whole life in cloth clothes.
Weng Juan lived in an era when Jiangxi Poetry School gradually declined. Weng Juan and other four Wenzhou poets are deeply dissatisfied with the style of Jiangxi Poetry School, which is "taking books as poems", piecing together old classics and sticking to their own opinions. Therefore, they started with the poets in the late Tang Dynasty, deliberately seeking new ideas, taking the road of "bitter songs" by Jia Dao and Yao He, and made great efforts to "be surprised and narrow".
Dai Fugu, a native of Huangyan, Taizhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, was full of admiration for Weng Juan. The poet likes Weng Juan's poems, but he has never seen them. Throughout his life, Weng Juan traveled around for poetry and survival. Therefore, in Wenzhou, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Jianghuai and other places, Dai Fugu followed in his footsteps. By chance, he accidentally met Weng Juan, a complete stranger, in Hunan.
He wrote "Weng Lingshu of Hunan Central Association": "Tiantai Mountain is adjacent to Yandang, only separated by a cloud. I don't know each other on the edge of the cloud, but I meet you three thousand miles away. " Express the feelings of meeting each other late to the fullest.
Liu Kezhuang criticized the "Four Spirits" and said: "Yongjia poets tried their best to meet with Jia Dao, Yao He and other vassal states" (Introduction to Guapu Collection), but he made another evaluation of Weng Juan. In Zhi Zhi, he said, "You are not only good at tang style, but also good at choosing sports workers. Sometimes a thousand years, only in a couplet. "
Nowadays, there are only a few ancient poems in Weng Juan's poetry collection, and the one named "April in the Country" is more well known: "There are white mountains and rivers everywhere, and the drizzle is like smoke. In April, there were few idle people in the countryside, so they only planted fields to raise silkworms. " It's quite fresh and far away.
Although there are not many pastoral poems written by Weng Juan, they are vivid. Weng Juan has many poems that can be painted into scrolls, just like the traditional landscape paintings in China, which are both enjoyable and wonderful.