"Pastoral Miscellany in Four Seasons (Part 1)"
Author: Fan Chengda
Working in the fields during the day and planting hemp at night, the children of the village are each responsible for their own affairs.
The children and grandchildren are still working for farming and weaving, and they are also learning to grow melons near the mulberry tree.
Translation: The adults go out to plow the fields during the day and come back to twist hemp ropes and weave cloth at night. The strong men and women in the village are responsible for their own farm work and housework. The children neither knew how to farm nor how to twist hemp ropes for weaving, but they also imitated adults and planted fruits under the mulberry trees.
"Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany (Part 2)"
Author: Fan Chengda
The plums are golden, the apricots are fat, and the wheat flowers, snow and white cauliflower are sparse.
No one passes by the fence during the long day, only dragonflies and butterflies fly.
Translation: The plums are attractive golden yellow, the apricots are plump; the buckwheat flowers are all white, but the rapeseed flowers are sparse. As the day lengthens, the shadows of the fence become shorter and shorter as the sun rises, and there is no one around; only dragonflies and butterflies dance.
Analysis: The above two poems are poems describing summer. We can judge the season described in the poem from the words "ploughing fields" in the first poem and "golden plums" in the second poem. .
Sixty Pastoral Poems in Four Seasons is a set of large-scale pastoral poems written by Fan Chengda, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, after he retired to his hometown. It is divided into five parts: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each part has twelve poems, totaling sixty poems. The poem describes the scenery of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter in the countryside and the lives of farmers. It also reflects the exploitation suffered by farmers and the hardship of life.
Among them are 12 pastoral miscellaneous songs in spring, 12 pastoral miscellaneous songs in late spring, 12 pastoral miscellaneous songs in summer, 12 pastoral miscellaneous songs in autumn, 12 pastoral miscellaneous songs in winter, and ***60 songs. . It describes different scenes in the countryside in four seasons and vividly draws dynamic pictures of rural farming.
Reference materials come from: Baidu Encyclopedia