1. Plant water chestnut in the deep, rice in the shallow, and lotus in the shallow. -Qing Dynasty: Ruan Yuan's Xing Wu Zashi.
vernacular Chinese: the deep water is suitable for planting water, the shallow water is suitable for planting rice, and the neither deep nor shallow water is suitable for Chinese lotus. This poem depicts the working people in the south of the Yangtze River making full use of natural production.
2. The husband plows hard and suffers from hunger, while the old woman weaves hard and has no clothes. -Song Dynasty: Xu Zhao's "Promoting Ci".
vernacular: the husband is working hard at farming, but he is still starving. The old woman weaves hard, but she always has no clothes to wear. This sentence shows that the working people are hard-working, but they still lack food and clothing.
3. There are no idle people in the farming month, and the family is in the south. -Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei's New Sunny Wild Hope.
vernacular: there are no leisure people in the busy farming season, and farmers are all busy working in the fields with their families.
4. The beauty jewelry Hou Wangyin comes from the bottom of the waves in the sand. -Tang Dynasty: Liu Yuxi's Nine Poems of Langtaosha.
The beauty's gold jewelry and the princes' gold seal, all of which were painstakingly elutriated from the bottom sand of the waves by the working people.
5. Tian's family suffers in autumn, and her neighbors are cold at night. —— Tang Dynasty: Li Bai's "Su Wu Song Shan Xia Xun Shu Jia".
vernacular: Qiu Lai, a farmer, is even busier with his work. The girl next door is pounding rice all night, not afraid of the cold autumn night.