"Spring Rain" by Xie Jin of the Ming Dynasty. The spring rain is as precious as oil, and it flows all over the street. It makes Bachelor Jie slip and make a group of cows laugh.
Jie Jin is short and eloquent, good at connecting sentences, quick in thinking and straightforward in temperament. It is said that when he was a child, he fell down in the rain, which made passers-by laugh. He wrote a poem casually: "Spring rain is as precious as oil, and it flows all over the street. If you slip and fall, you will make a group of cows laugh."
Northern China There is a saying that "auspicious snow heralds a good harvest". First, the auspicious snow accumulates enough moisture for the beginning of spring; second, the auspicious snow insulates the crops in the field; third, some pests will die from the auspicious snow. And "spring rain is as valuable as oil" brings opportunities for spring plowing, spring sowing and spring planting in the south, especially Wangtiantian, which "depends on the sky for food".
Xie Jin was extremely talented and could not stop writing. He was especially good at five-character poems, with more than 500 poems extant. His ancient style songs are unrestrained and rich in imagination, which is close to Li Bai's, while his rhymed poems and quatrains are close to those of the Tang Dynasty. Xie Jinzhi's articles are elegant, powerful, ancient, and highly individual. His political essays are straightforward and full of momentum, and his biographies are concise and vivid in description.