(772-846) named Letian, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. He once served as the prince's teacher and was highly praised for his integrity as an official. In his later years, he lived in seclusion at Xiangshan Temple in Luoyang, so he was called Xiangshan layman. The collection of works includes 50 pieces of "New Yuefu" and 10 pieces of "Qin Zhongyin", both of which are famous. The poem boldly criticizes current affairs and expresses the suffering of the people. During his lifetime, he compiled many poems and essays into "Bai's Changqing Collection".
"Viewing the Harvested Wheat" is a famous early allegorical poem by the author Bai Juyi. The narrative of this poem is clear and clear, and the structural level is also very clear and natural.
"The Tian family has few leisure months, but people are twice as busy in May. The south wind blows at night, and the wheat is covered with yellow." The beginning of the poem explains the writing background, indicating that it is the busy farming season of wheat harvest in May. Then, "Women and aunts carry baskets for food, and children carry pots of pulp. They go with them to the paid fields, and the young men and women are in Nangang." These two sentences describe women and children rushing to the fields to deliver water and food to the young adults who are harvesting wheat. scene. Later, he wrote about the fatigue and hard work of the young and middle-aged people. They "were full of heat and rustic weather, and their backs were scorching with the scorching sky." Regardless of the scorching sun and the hot earth under their feet, they worked tirelessly to harvest wheat in the Nangang wheat fields. "I don't know the heat when I am exhausted, but I regret that the summer is long." Although they were exhausted, they cherished the long summer and did not care about the scorching sun. At this point in the poem, the scene of the family's hard work is shown in front of us, and the readers also feel deep sympathy for this. Then, the author paints a sad picture. "There was a poor woman with a child beside her. She was holding an ear of corn in her right hand, and a basket hanging in her left hand." A poor woman was holding a small child in her arms, holding a broken basket in her hand and picking up the wheat left behind during the harvest. ear. "It makes people sad to hear what they say. They have lost all their land and left it to satisfy their hunger." It turned out that in order to pay official taxes, her family bought all the land. Now they have no land to plant and no wheat to harvest, so they have to rely on others. It is so pitiful and sad to live on the broken wheat scattered during the harvest.
The two scenarios described above profoundly reveal the difficult life of farmers under the pressure of heavy taxes. They work hard and busy farming, but there is still no guarantee. Today’s wheat harvesters are likely to become Tomorrow's wheat gleaners, this strong satire is all in it.