The poem "Ephemera" says: "Pick ephemera, pick them with thin words. Pick slugs, fine print. Pick cockroaches, thin words. " It is a musical song of peasant women picking plantain grass, which is lively and cheerful, and enthusiastically praises the noble quality of working people who love labor.
"After cutting the grain at noon, sweat dripped into the soil. Who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard. " Li Shen, a well-known poet in Tang Dynasty. In a few words, the hard work and hard work of the workers were written to the extreme.
Another of his songs, Compassion for Farmers, wrote: "If you plant a millet in spring, you will reap 10,000 seeds in autumn. There are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death. " It vividly depicts the fruitful scenes in various places, highlighting the realistic problem that farmers are still hungry, naked and starved to death after working hard to get a bumper harvest. It is very touching to read.
Tao Yuanming is willing to go back to the fields to farm. He writes about farm work in his poems, which is full of poetry and painting. For example, his "Returning to the Pastoral Residence": "When Nanshan grows beans, the grass is full of bean seedlings. Get up early in the morning to get rid of weeds, and come back with hoes in the moonlight at night. The narrow path covered with vegetation, the night dew wet my clothes. The clothes are not covered, but the wish is not violated. " The whole poem is simple and natural, fresh and simple, concise, sincere and touching, expressing the love for rural life and the comfort and leisure of enjoying rural labor.
He wrote in the poem "Harvest Early Rice in Xitian in September of Gengxunian": "Life should return to the Tao, food and clothing should be solid, not camp, so as to be safe." Warn people to be self-reliant and work hard. If they do nothing, how can they solve their own food and clothing problems?
Bai Juyi described the hardships of labor in detail in "Looking at Cutting Wheat", which was vivid and touching. "The family, idle month less, people twice as busy in May. In the evening, the south wind rises and the wheat turns yellow. Mother-in-law is rich in food, and children are full of pot pulp. Go with Tian Xiang. Ding Zhuang is in Nangang. Filled with the heat of the country, the back was scorched by the sun. I don't know how hot it is, but the summer is long. "
May is the season of wheat harvest. Women take their children to the fields to give food and water to men who harvest wheat. These farmers bury their heads in the wheat fields, fumigate their feet and bask in the sun on their backs. They are tired and don't feel hot, in order to cherish the long days in summer and do more work. Reading such a poem, we can't help but be moved by the poet's sympathy and pity for the farmer.
"Wealth has no roots, but it comes from diligence." Labor is the most glorious, sublime, greatest and most beautiful. Loving and respecting labor has always been the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation.