Summer Resort Za Qi Xing Qi
Song Dynasty: Fan Chengda
During the day, weeding in the fields and rubbing hemp thread at home at night, the men and women in the village took on all the housework.
Although the children don't plow and weave, they also learn a kind of melon in the shade of mulberry trees.
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Weeding in the fields during the day and rubbing hemp thread at home at night, both men and women in the village have their own household affairs.
Although the children can't plow and weave, they have learned to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees.
To annotate ...
Farming: weeding. Ji Ma: Twist marijuana into thread. Responsible for each other: everyone has a certain job. Unresolved: I don't understand. Engage in, participate in. Next to: near.
Brief analysis
This poem describes a scene of summer life in the countryside.
The first sentence "Going out to farm during the day, getting hemp at night" means: weeding in the field during the day and rubbing hemp thread at night. "Tillage" means weeding. In early summer, the seedlings need weeding. This is what men should do. "Ji Ma" refers to women who rub twine and weave cloth at night after finishing other work during the day. This sentence directly wrote the labor scene. The second sentence "the children in the village mind their own affairs" refers to men and women. The whole poem uses the tone of an old farmer, and "children" refers to young people. "Being in charge" means that both men and women are not allowed to be idle and mind their own business. In the third sentence, "children and grandchildren are not prepared for farming and weaving", and "children and grandchildren" refer to those children who can neither farm nor weave, but are not idle. They have been in contact with and love labor since childhood, so they "learn to plant melons under the shade of mulberry trees" and also learn to plant melons under the lush mulberry trees. This is a common phenomenon in rural areas, but it is quite distinctive. The conclusion shows the naive interest of rural children.
With a fresh style, the poet described the tense labor atmosphere in the early summer in the countryside in a more delicate way, which made it interesting to read.
Chengda Fan
Fan Chengda (1126-1193), whose real name is Intelligent, is called Shi Hu lay man. Han nationality, born in Wuxian County, Pingjiang (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Poets in Southern Song Dynasty. Shi Wenmu. Starting from the Jiangxi School, he studied the poems in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, inherited the realistic spirit of poets such as Bai Juyi, Wang Jian and Zhang Ji, and finally became his own family. Simple style, fresh and charming. Poetry has a wide range of themes, and the works that reflect the content of rural social life have the highest achievements. Together with Yang Wanli, Lu You and You Mao, they are also known as the "Four Masters of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty.