Weeding is at noon,
Sweat dripped down the soil.
Who knows the food on the plate,
Every grain is bitter.
Note 1. Unfortunately. 2. Hoe: Use a hoe to loosen the soil around the seedlings. 3. Who knows that the Chinese food in the dish is written as "the grandson in the dish" in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong. Because the word "Sun" is rarely used in China, it is an uncommon word. In order to make the poem easier to understand, it was changed to Sun.
At noon, the farmer was weeding in the field, and a drop of sweat fell to the ground. Who can know the origin of this meal? Every grain is so hard.
Li Shen's "Compassion for Farmers" II
Plant a millet in spring,
Harvest ten thousand seeds in autumn.
There are no idle fields in the four seas,
The farmer is still starving to death.
Note 1. Unfortunately. 2. Xiaomi: (1) Xiaomi; Chestnut millet. 3. Jude: Still so. 4. Four seas: refers to all parts of the country.
In spring, when farmers plant a millet, they can receive a lot of grain in autumn. Although the land all over the country is cultivated by farmers, farmers still starve to death because they have no food to eat.
A poem about wasting food teaches us not to waste food. The poet "Compassion for Peasants" in the Tang Dynasty was written by Li Shen, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. The full text of ancient poetry is as follows:
The first song:
At noon in summer, the sun is very hot, farmers are still working, and beads are dripping into the soil.
Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard?
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It was written by Li Shen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Two Peasants' Poems and Two Antique Poems are five-character ancient poems written by Li Shen, a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, when he was young. It is about the hardships of labor, and the fruits of labor are hard-won and spread widely.
To annotate ...
1. Unfortunately: Unfortunately.
2. Hoe: Use a hoe to loosen the soil around the seedlings.
3. Who knows about Chinese food on the plate: In Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and other places, it is written as Chinese food on the plate (sūn), but after China adopted simplified characters, Chinese food was rarely used, and then it was changed to meals. Dining: Japanese food is a meal, and dinner is a meal.
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At noon, the farmer was weeding in the field, and a drop of sweat fell to the ground. Who can know the origin of this meal? Every grain is so hard.
Make an appreciative comment
This poem is about the hardships of labor, and the fruits of labor are hard to come by. The first and second sentences, "When weeding at noon, sweat drips down the soil", depict farmers still working in the fields under the scorching sun at noon. These two poems choose a specific scene and vividly describe the hardships of labor. With these two specific descriptions, the sighs and warnings in the third and fourth sentences, "Who knows that every grain is hard", are freed from the empty and abstract preaching and become flesh-and-blood and far-reaching proverbs.
This poem doesn't start with specific people and things. It reflects not the personal experience, but the life and destiny of the whole peasant. The poet chose typical details of life and well-known facts, and profoundly exposed the unreasonable social system. Tell people that they should save food and not waste it.
The second song:
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.
To annotate ...
1 Compassion: pity and sympathy.
2 Millet: (1) Millet, which is called shelled millet in the north.
Jude: It is still so.
Four seas: refers to all parts of the country.
Idle field: a useless and uncultivated field.
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In spring, farmers can plant millet and harvest a lot of grain in autumn. Although all the land in this country is cultivated by farmers, farmers still starve to death because all their food has been taken away by officials.
Make an appreciative comment
At the beginning of the first poem, the harvest was vividly described by turning "a grain of millet" into "ten thousand seeds", and the farmers' labor was praised by "planting" and "harvesting". The third sentence, by extension, shows that the wasteland has become fertile land within the four seas, and together with the first two sentences, it constitutes a vivid scene of fruitful and "gold" everywhere. "Enlightenment" is for stronger "development". These three poems show the great contribution and infinite creativity of the working people with progressive brushwork, making the following knot more dignified and more painful. "Good harvest, good harvest? (Snow in Luo Yin) Yes, so what if there is a bumper harvest?
"Farmers are still starving to death" not only makes the content coherent, but also highlights the problem. Hard-working farmers got a bumper harvest with their hands, but they were still empty-handed and starved to death. Poetry forces people to think with a heavy heart: Who created this human tragedy? The answer is clear. The poet puts all this behind the scenes for readers to discover and think. Combining these two aspects, as Marx said: "Labor has produced amazing works (miracles) for the rich, but labor has produced extreme poverty for the workers. Labor built palaces, but caves for laborers. Labor produces beauty, but it produces deformity to workers. 」