Miscellaneous Stories of Four Seasons is a group of large-scale pastoral poems written by Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, after he retired to his hometown. It is divided into five parts: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter, with 60 songs in each part 12.
Poetry describes the rural scenery and farmers' life in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and also reflects the exploitation and suffering suffered by farmers.
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During the ten years when Fan Chengda retired from Shihu, he wrote many pastoral poems, among which Miscellanies of Four Seasons Pastoral was the most famous. This group of poems ***60 seven-character quatrains, with 12 poems as a group, is divided into rural life of wing chun day, late spring day, summer day, autumn day and winter day.
In the history of ancient poetry, most of the pastoral poems are actually poems of literati expressing their seclusion. For example, the pastoral scenery in the poems of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran all appeared as the externalization of the poet's quiet mood.
Except for a few Tao poems, farming, the most important content of rural life in ancient pastoral poems, was neglected, and the occasional woodcutter and farmer were often endowed with the character of hermit.
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