First of all:
In spring, as long as you sow a seed, you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.
There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death.
Second:
At noon in summer, the sun is very hot, farmers are still working, and beads are dripping into the soil.
Who would have thought that our bowl of rice and grain are full of the blood and sweat of farmers?
The translation is as follows:
Poetry translation:
Sow a seed in spring and you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.
There is not a piece of land that is not cultivated, but farmers still starve to death.
Poetry 2 translation:
Farmers are weeding in the midday sun, and sweat drips from them on the land where seedlings grow.
Who knows that every meal on the plate is bought by farmers with hard work?
Extended data:
The appreciation of these two poems is as follows:
Compared with those famous poems, these two short poems are not excellent in the flowery Tang poetry world, but they are widely spread, well known to women and children, and it is not unreasonable to be recited and tasted by people.
First of all, the contents of these two poems are the most familiar things that people often come into contact with. However, you don't really know what you are most familiar with. There are many things in life that you turn a blind eye to. If someone tries to enlighten you, explain the essence, or point out some truth involved, you will feel very eye-catching and clear, thus deepening your understanding. This is the reason why these two little poems have vitality.
Secondly, when the poet expounds the above contents, he does not use vague abstractions, but uses vivid images and profound contrasts to expose problems and explain the reasons, so that people can easily accept and understand them. Like the first three sentences of the first song, in general, they all use vivid images to summarize the hard work of farmers in the vast fields, such as spring planting and autumn harvest.
These sufferings have brought a lot of food, so we can live, but the last sentence has become "farmers are still starving." In this way, the situation before and after is in sharp contrast, which causes readers to think about problems and draw conclusions from the comparison, which is much more profound and powerful than the author telling readers his own views directly.
Another example is the second song. The first two sentences of the author didn't say how hard it is for farmers to farm and how difficult it is for crops to grow. He just made an image of the plot of farmers sweating in the hot sun, which made people make this hard and hard taste more concrete, profound and real. Therefore, the poet finally said in a rhetorical tone that "everyone knows that every meal is hard" is very convincing. In particular, comparing the grain to a drop of sweat is really subtle and vivid.
Finally, the language of the poems is simple, the syllables are harmonious and lively, catchy and easy to recite, which is also the reason why these two short poems have been circulated among the people for a long time.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Two Poems for Farmers