The original text is:
April in the countryside
Weng Juan (Southern Song Dynasty)
The mountains and plains are all green, and the sound of Zigui is raining like smoke.
In April, there were few idle people in the countryside, and sericulture was planted in the fields.
Poetry translation:
The fields on the hillside are lush with vegetation, and the water color in the rice fields reflects the skylight. The sky is misty and rainy, cuckoos are crying, and the earth is thriving.
April has arrived, and no one is idle. Just after sericulture, it is necessary to transplant rice seedlings again.
Appreciate April in the countryside;
This poem describes the field scenery and busy farming scene in the early summer in the rural areas of the south of the Yangtze River in a simple way. The first two sentences describe the natural scenery: green plains, Shirakawa, Zigui and misty rain, and a few strokes outline the unique scenery of the water town in early summer.
"Green times" is used to describe lush vegetation, "white full" means abundant rain, and "divided rules" means urging farming, vividly showing the unique scenery of "April in the country".
The last two sentences describe the busy farming, and the screen mainly highlights the image of a farmer who has just harvested silkworm cocoons and transplanted rice in paddy fields, thus setting off the tension and busyness of rural labor in April. Call before and answer after, interwoven into a colorful picture.
In April in the south of the Yangtze River, the hillside is green, Yuan Ye is green, and green trees, grass and seedlings are displayed in front of the poet, which is a world dominated by green. On the green Yuan Ye, rivers and canals criss-cross, flowing one by one, white; Paddy fields filled with water are also white.
Looking up, the green fields and the white water are all shrouded in faint smoke. In fact, it is not fog, but drizzle. From time to time, there are several cuckoo calls coming from trees and the air.
The first two sentences of the poem describe the scenery of Jiangnan in early summer, with broad vision and delicate brushwork; Bright colors and hazy artistic conception; Dynamic and static combination, vivid and colorful. "The rain is like smoke in the sound of the sub-gauge", and the drizzle like smoke seems to be summoned by the sub-gauge, which is particularly sense of realm.
"In April, there were few idle people in the countryside, and only silkworms were planted in the fields." The last two sentences are about busy farming in early summer in Jiangnan. Mulberry picking, sericulture and transplanting are two major agricultural activities related to food and clothing. April is the busy farming season, and every household is very busy.
Don't take the last sentence of the poem too seriously, thinking that every family is the first to pick mulberry and feed silkworm, and some people transport seedlings and some transplant them; Some people put silkworms into the field first, some people put silkworms into the field first, some people are only busy with one of them, and many people have to do something else.
"Planting fields only when raising silkworms" is just a simplification, which outlines the busy atmosphere of rural farmers in April. As for not directly saying that people are too busy, but that there are few idle people, that is deliberately euphemistic.
In order to keep a leisurely attitude in the busy and nervous crowd, this leisurely attitude is in harmony with the watercolor hazy tone described in the first two scenes.
The whole poem is concise and vivid in language, natural in style and full of life breath, which expresses the author's praise for the hard work of farmers.