Out of the Country is a five-character quatrain written by Yang Shen, a poet in the Ming Dynasty. From the poet's perspective, this poem outlines the beautiful and rich rice fields in the rural areas of southern mountainous areas. There are pictures in the poem, and there are movements in silence. The last sentence, especially the finishing touch, makes the farmland scenery in the suburbs of spring picturesque and beautiful.
Vernacular translation: The border fields on the hillside are like stairs, and the neat border fields on the plain are like chessboards. The egret suddenly flew into the paddy field and lit a white spot on a green seedling.
In the third year of Jiajing (A.D. 1524), Yang Shen was demoted to Yongchangwei, Yunnan, and lived in Yunnan for more than 30 years. This poem was written during Yang Shen's demotion. On the one hand, the poet stayed away from the palace struggle and enjoyed the quiet rural life; On the other hand, in a green field, the poet saw the egret coming and felt homesick, so he wrote this poem.
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The first two sentences describe the shape of paddy fields, which are described as stairs and chessboards. They all belong to the beauty of neat arrangement and describe the magnificence of Gaotian and Pingtian. From the perspective of Gaotian, there are layers of stairs. Seen from above, Hirata looks like a chessboard. The fields are orderly and the seedlings grow happily. Through the change of the poet's perspective and position, he described the field scenery in different directions.
The last two sentences wrote about a green paddy field, and egrets suddenly flew in, adding vitality and bright colors to the paddy field, making the quiet picture dynamic. The poet wrote the spectacle of "a little white among all greens" with the poem "a little red among all greens". The last sentence is the finishing touch, and the poetic eye is "disturbing".