There are many works about the influence of solar terms and weather on crops and directly describing farming activities in Miscellanies of Four Seasons Pastoral. For example, the thirty-first part of "Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous Glory" says: "The children in the village, when they go out during the day and at night, are all in charge of their own affairs. Children and grandchildren are not prepared to farm and weave, but also learn to grow melons in mulberry shade. "
In terms of artistic form, Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany adopts seven groups of poems, which is of great scale. The poet divides these sixty poems into five groups: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter, in order to describe the pastoral life in different seasons, which is more mulberry and rational in content.
Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany is an organic integration of pastoral scenery, farming life and farmers' feelings in Fan Chengda's early agriculture-related poems. The poet assembled these creative elements in the form of large-scale poems, which is his first creation and also a summary and transcendence of the previous pastoral poetry creation. As Qian Zhongshu said, the poet "summed up" pastoral poetry and peasant discourse, forming a rich new pastoral masterpiece. Fan Chengda thus became a master in the history of China's pastoral poetry. 1
References:
Guan Shu. From Fan Chengda's Early Pastoral Poetry to Four Seasons' Pastoral Miscellaneous Interest —— Also on the penetration of agricultural theme into pastoral poetry in Fan Chengda's poetry [J]. Journal of Anhui Agricultural University (Social Science Edition), 20 10, 19(04):92-97.