Qingyuanmei
Cowboys ride on the backs of oxen, and songs echo in the forest.
Suddenly want to catch the song of the tree, immediately stop singing and stand by the tree silently.
translate
The shepherd boy rode on the back of the cow,
Loud songs echoed in the forest.
Suddenly want to catch the cicada singing in the tree,
Stand by and watch the tree immediately stop singing and keep silent.
Creation background
On the trip, the poet saw a shepherd boy singing on a cow. Suddenly he heard the sound of cicada, so he stopped singing and jumped down from the cow's back to catch cicada. This scene aroused the poet's poetic interest, and he wrote this poem "What he saw".
note:
Judging from the cicada singing, this poem describes summer.