Li Shen, the author of Benevolence for Farmers? Tang dynasty.

if you plant a millet in spring, you will reap ten thousand seeds in autumn.

there are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death.

when weeding is at noon, sweat drips down the soil.

but every grain of Chinese food is hard.

translation:

As long as you sow a seed in spring, you can harvest a lot of food in autumn. All over the world, there are no fields left uncultivated and uncultivated, and toiling farmers will still starve to death. At noon in midsummer, the scorching sun, farmers are still working, sweat dripping into the soil. Who would have thought that the rice in our bowl is full of the blood and sweat of farmers?

Appreciation:

At the beginning of the first song, the bumper harvest is described concretely and vividly by turning "a millet" into "ten thousand seeds", and the farmers' labor is praised by "planting" and "harvesting". "There are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death." The last two sentences of the poem say that all over the world, there is no land that is left uncultivated and uncultivated, and working farmers will still starve to death.

by extension, the third sentence describes that wasteland has turned into fertile land within the four seas. This is linked with the first two sentences, which constitutes a fruitful and fruitful scene everywhere. "Full" is for more powerful "hair". The poet's progressive brushwork in the first three sentences shows the great contribution and endless creativity of the working people, which makes the following knot more dignified and more painful. So what if there is a bumper harvest? "Farmers still starve to death", which not only makes the content coherent, but also highlights the problem.

Two Poems for Peasants is a group of poems by Li Shen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This group of poems profoundly reflects the living conditions of farmers in feudal China. The first poem vividly depicts the fruitful scene everywhere, highlighting the realistic problem that farmers have worked hard to get a bumper harvest but died of starvation with empty hands.

The second poem depicts the scene of working in the farmers' fields at noon in the scorching sun, which generally shows the farmers' hard-working life all year round. Finally, it expresses the poet's sincere sympathy for the farmers with a motto that is close to the meaning. The poetry anthology selected typical life details and well-known facts, and concentrated on depicting the social contradictions at that time. The style is simple and heavy, the language is popular and simple, the syllables are harmonious and bright, and the combination of reality and contrast is used to enhance the expressive force of the poem.