The Village Maid with a Teapot is another masterpiece created by arkhipov in his later years. The village girl in the painting is dressed in a long red national dress, and the bright colors and provocative brushwork convey the passionate and unrestrained character of Russian women.
Country girl
-Dai Wangshu
The girls in the village walked quietly,
Carrying her mossy bucket;
Splashed cold water dripped on her flippers,
Her heart is under the willow tree in spring.
The girl will quietly return to her old house,
That old house in the shade of a century-old Dong Qing,
When she thought of the teenager who kissed her by the spring,
She would smile and pursed her lips.
She'll go to the old cabin,
She will scare away a flock of birds pecking at tiles,
She would sneak into the kitchen,
Quietly put the bucket beside the straw.
She will help her mother cook,
And the father who came back from the field would sit on the threshold and smoke.
She will feed the pigs in the pigsty,
Yes, lovely chickens are driven into their nests.
At the evening dinner,
Her father talked about this year's harvest,
She may talk about her daughter's marriage,
She would bow her head shyly.
Her mother may call her lazy,
Her hesitation in fetching water is a good example.
But she won't hear these words,
Because she's thinking about that reckless teenager.