Two poems about farmers
Li Shen? Tang dynasty
In spring, as long as you sow a seed, you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.
There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death.
At noon in summer, the sun is very hot, farmers are still working, and beads are dripping into the soil.
Who would have thought that our bowl of rice and grain are full of the blood and sweat of farmers?
According to Fan Gang's Yunxi Friendship in the Tang Dynasty and Lu Shu's Weichuan in the old Tang Dynasty, it can be roughly inferred that this group of poems was written by Shen Li in 799 AD (the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong).
Li Shen (772-846), born in Bozhou (now Anhui) and Wucheng (now Huzhou, Zhejiang), grew up in Wuxi, Runzhou (now Jiangsu). This word is vertical. At the age of 27, he was admitted to middle school and became a teaching assistant. He became close friends with Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi. The most brilliant part of his life is poetry. He is a participant in the new Yuefu movement, which has great influence in the history of literature. He wrote 20 new poems about Yuefu, which have been lost. There are two poems entitled "Compassion for Farmers": "At noon on the day of weeding, sweat drips down the soil. Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard. " It is well known to all women and children, and it has been told through the ages. The Complete Tang Poetry contains four volumes of Tang poetry.