The ancient poems about the busy work of rural people include "Summer Pastoral Miscellany Part 7", "April in the Countryside", "Hoeing", "On the Fields", "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields", "Farmer Father" ", "Inscribed on the Farmer's House", etc. These ancient poems all show the scenes of hard work of rural people.
1. "Tian Shang"
Cui Daorong of the Tang Dynasty
The rain is full and the fields are white, and the grass is plowing in the middle of the night.
The strength of man and cattle is exhausted, but the east is still unclear.
Translation
The spring rain has fallen so much that the fields in the high places are filled with white water; farmers wear raincoats and brave the rain in order to grab seeds. He came to the fields to work in the middle of the night.
By the time both the man and the cow had lost their strength, it was still far from dawn.
2. "Farmhouse"
Tang Dynasty·Yan Renyu
In the middle of the night, he calls his children to plow at dawn, and the oxen are unable to walk with difficulty.
People at that time did not realize the hardships of farming, and would say that the grain in the fields grew by itself.
Translation
The children were woken up in the middle of the night and hurriedly went to plow the fields at dawn; the thin old cows were weak and were pulling the plow hard in the fields. walking.
Most people don’t know the hard work of farmers, so they think that the rice in the fields grows naturally.
3. "April in the Countryside"
Song Dynasty·Weng Juan
The mountains are green and the rivers are white, and the rain is like smoke in the sound of the rules.
In April in the countryside, there are few idle people, so they are planting sericulture and planting fields.
Translation
The grass and trees in the fields on the hillside are lush, the color of the water in the rice fields complements the skylight; the cuckoos sing in the misty drizzle.
April is the busiest time in the countryside. The sericulture has just ended and rice transplanting has to begin again.