Appreciation of Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellanies (25) Appreciation of Poetry

The Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous Glory (25) is the work of Fan Dacheng, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. The whole poem is as follows:

Plum golden apricot fat, wheat white, cauliflower thin.

No one has ever crossed the fence, but dragonflies and butterflies can fly

It means: a plum tree becomes golden, and the apricots grow bigger and bigger; Buckwheat flowers are white and rape flowers are sparse. As the day grows, the shadow of the fence becomes shorter and shorter as the sun rises, and no one passes by; Only butterflies and dragonflies fly around the fence.

This poem is about the rural scenery of Jiangnan in early summer. The poet vividly described the summer scenery in Jiangnan with four words: yellow, fat, white and rare. In the first two sentences, plums and apricots are fat, wheat and cabbage are thin and brightly colored. The third sentence of the poem describes the situation of farmers' labor from the side, and the last sentence uses "only dragonflies and butterflies are flying" to set off the silence in the village, which is even quieter. It shows the poet's love for rural life.