Li Bai [Tang Dynasty], the fourteenth song of Seventeen Songs of Autumn Pu
The fire was shining in the sky, and the red star in the purple smoke was in chaos. On the night of the moon, copper smelters sang, and their songs resounded through the cold valley.
Seventeen Poems of Qiupu (the 14th poem) is a masterpiece describing smelting workers. The fire lit up the world, purple smoke filled the room, and sparks splashed everywhere. On the moonlit night, the smelters sang loudly while working, and their high-pitched songs shocked Hanchuan. The lines of this poem are full of reverence for the hardworking but optimistic smelting workers.
Li Bai was an outstanding romantic poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and was known as "Poet Fairy", "Poet Knight", "Brewmaster" and "Immortal". Also known as Du Fu, he was praised as "Heaven Fairy" and "Li Zhongxian". Li Bai's works are rich in imagination, romantic and unrestrained, unique in artistic conception and brilliant, and his artistic achievements in poetry are known as the peak of China's romantic poetry. His poems were included in The Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty (Volume 16 1 to 185), and Li Taibai Collection was handed down from generation to generation.
Poems describing laborers:
1, "It was noon when weeding, and sweat dripped down the soil. Who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard. " Li Shen's "Compassion for Peasants" in the Tang Dynasty is a household name with few words, which vividly depicts the hardships of peasants working in the fields and tells us that every grain is hard to come by. ?
2. "The family is idle, and people are twice as busy in May. In the evening, the south wind rises and the wheat turns yellow. Mother-in-law is rich in food, and children are full of pot pulp. Go with Tian Xiang. Ding Zhuang is in Nangang. Filled with the heat of the country, the back was scorched by the sun. I don't know how hot it is, but the summer is long. " Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Looking at the Wheat Harvest", which described the scene of a peasant woman leading her children to deliver food to the strong laborers who were cutting wheat in the field. Wheat harvesters bask in the scorching sun and steam their feet at high temperature. Although he was very tired, he forgot the heat and just wanted to do more work in the long summer days.
3. Song Dynasty poet Mei's "The Pottery Man": "The pottery is in front of the door, and there is no tile on the house. The fingers are not stained with mud, and the scale is in the building. "
Fan Zhongyan, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote Fisherman on the River: "People come and go on the river, but they love the beauty of perch. You see a boat, troubled by the storm. "
Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Selling Charcoal Weng": "Selling Charcoal Weng, chopping wood and burning charcoal in the mountains. His face was covered with dust, which was the color of smoke burning, his temples were gray, and his ten fingers were burnt black. What is the money for selling charcoal for? Buy clothes, buy food in your mouth. Poor clothes, worried about charcoal and willing to be cold. " These poems describing the hardships and hardships of workers from all walks of life are thought-provoking and moving.