children
Bathe in the mud
dad
Sweat in the soil
grandpa
Bury in the soil
Adults who are busy supporting their families have no leisure to play with their children and let them play in the dirty mud. "Bathing in the mud" is a metaphor, which reminds people of an unattended child who plays in the mud and fails to teach his father. However, this is his father's helplessness and sadness.
Dad is sweating in the field, which is also a common image of working farmers in China. It was they who worked silently on the land and sweated silently that they got the food on which the people of the whole country depended. And in this glittering grain, how many farmers' hard work and sweat are included.
Grandpa is buried in the ground, and grandson is still playing in the mud. Grandpa should have enjoyed his old age with his grandson, but now he is buried deep in the ground. Years of hard work caused him to die prematurely. The bitterness of farmers can be seen. The key point here is that the "earth" repeatedly emphasized in the three poems is the soul of the poem. Farmers rely on land to continue their lives and the lives of the people of the whole country. However, the land also bears their labor and bitterness. Born in the soil, grew up in the soil, sweated in the soil and finally buried in the soil. These are the helpless cycles repeated by countless farmers for generations.