The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China, which contains a large number of agricultural poems depicting labor production. From the beginning, the famous "Cutting Tan" talks about "Kankan cutting Tan, which is a folk song describing the work of loggers".

the poem "the slugs" says, "Pick the slugs, and pick them with thin words. Picking slugs, there are thin words. Picking cockroaches, thin words. " It is the music songs of peasant women picking plantain grass, which are vivid and cheerful, and enthusiastically praise the noble quality of working people who love labor.

"It's noon when weeding, and sweat drips down the soil. Who knows that Chinese food on the plate is hard. " Li Shen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is well known to all women and children. In a few sentences, the hard work and toil of laborers are written to the extreme.

Another of his poems, Benevolence for Farmers, says, "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. " It vividly depicts the fruitful scenes everywhere, highlighting the realistic problem that farmers have worked hard to get a bumper harvest, but they are still hungry, clothed and starved to death. It is touching to read.

Tao Yuanming is willing to go back to the fields to work as a farmer, and he writes farm work in his poems, which is full of poetry. For example, his "Returning to the Pastoral Residence": "When beans are planted in the south mountain, the grass is full of bean seedlings. Early in the morning get up early to eradicate the weeds, the night falls on the moonlight carry hoe to return. The narrow path covered with vegetation, and the night dew moistened my clothes. The clothes are not enough, but the wishes are not violated. " The whole poem is plain and natural, fresh and simple, concise, sincere and touching, expressing the love for rural life and the comfort and leisure of enjoying the joy of rural work.

He wrote in the poem "Harvest Early Rice in Xitian in September of Geng Xu's Year": "Life belongs to a proper way, and food and clothing secure its end, but you don't want to run, so as to secure yourself." People are warned to be self-reliant and work hard. If they do nothing, how can they solve their own food and clothing problems?

Bai Juyi described the hardships of labor in detail, vividly and touching. "Family, less idle month, people are twice as busy in May. At night, the south wind rises and the wheat is covered with yellow. The mother-in-law is rich in food, and the child is full of pot pulp. Go with Xiang Tian, and Ding Zhuang is in Nangang. It's full of rustic heat, and the back is burning with sunlight. I don't know how hot it is, but I regret that summer is long. "

May is the harvest season. Women take their children to the fields to deliver food and water to men who are harvesting wheat. These farmers bury their heads in the wheat fields, fumigate under their feet and bake on their backs in the hot sun. They are exhausted and don't feel hot, in order to cherish the long days in summer and do more work. Reading such a poem, we can't help but be moved by the poet's sympathy and pity for the farmer.

"Wealth has no roots, but it comes from diligence." Labor is the most glorious, the noblest, the greatest and the most beautiful. Loving and respecting labor is always the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation.