1. Original text: It’s noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat is dripping from the soil. Who knew that every meal on the plate is hard work?
Source: "Two Poems of Compassion for Peasants" by Li Shen of the Tang Dynasty
Interpretation: At noon in midsummer, the sun is scorching, and farmers are still working, and beads of sweat drip into the soil. Who would have thought that every grain of rice in our bowls contains the blood and sweat of farmers?
2. Original text: I don’t know how weak my physical strength is, but I feel too lazy to go upstairs.
Source: Song Dynasty·Xin Qiji's "Partridge Sky·Ehu Returns to Sickness"
Interpretation: I don't know how much energy I have lost now. I just feel that I am too lazy to go upstairs and climb the stairs recently. .
3. Original text: I have been tired of hairpins for a long time, but fortunately I was banished to Nanyi. I am leisurely leaning on my neighbor's farm and garden, occasionally like a visitor in the forest. ?
Source: "Xiju" by Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty
Interpretation: In the past, he was burdened by official duties, but now he was fortunately relegated to the southern minority area. Quiet and peaceful, neighbored by farmers' vegetable gardens, sometimes I feel like a hermit in the mountains and forests.
4. Original text: The cloud network is in full swing, making my old body tired.
Source: "Two Dreams of Li Bai" by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty
Interpretation: Who can say that the justice of nature does not deceive others, but innocent people are affected in their old age.
5. Original text: If the world is tired of tomorrow, spring will pass and autumn will come, and old age will come. In the morning, you can see the water flowing eastward, and in the evening, you can see the sun setting in the west.
Source: Qian Fu's "Song of Tomorrow" in the Ming Dynasty
Interpretation: The world is tired of tomorrow just like me, and will grow old soon after each passing year. Watching the river flowing eastward in the morning and watching the sun setting westward in the evening is real life.