A poem about weeding in the afternoon

Kindness for farmers

[ Tang] Li Shen

Original text

When weeding in the afternoon, sweat drops down the soil.

who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard?

the explanation of the whole poem in the afternoon of weeding

At noon in midsummer, the farmers were still working and sweat dripped into the soil under the scorching sun.

who would have thought that every grain of rice in our bowl was obtained by farmers' hard work?

Origin

Two poems of "Compassion for Peasants" are five-character ancient poems written by Li Shen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, and they are included in "All Poems of the Tang Dynasty"

This group of poems profoundly reflects the living conditions of peasants in the feudal era of China. The first poem vividly depicts the fruitful scenes everywhere, highlighting the realistic problem that farmers have worked hard to get a bumper harvest but starved to death empty-handed

Notes

(1) Pity. There is sympathy here. One poem is Two Antique Poems. The order of these two poems is different from version to version.

(2) millet: generally refers to cereals.

(3) Autumn Harvest: Write "Qiu Cheng". Son: refers to grain particles.

(4) Four seas: refers to the whole country. Idle field: A field that is not cultivated.

⑸ Jude: Still.

[6] cereal: a general term for cereal plants.

(7) Meal: a "meal". A generic term for cooked food.

Creation background

According to the records of Fan Yi's Yunxi Youyi and Old Tang Shu Lu Wei Chuan in the Tang Dynasty, it can be roughly presumed that this group of poems was written by Li Shen in the 15th year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (799).

Appreciation

From the beginning, it was depicted in the hot sun at noon, farmers were still working in the fields, and the drops of sweat were sprinkled on the scorching land. This makes up for the fact that from "one millet" to "ten thousand seeds" to "the four seas have no idle fields", it was watered by thousands of farmers in Qian Qian with blood and sweat; This also captures the most typical image for the following "every grain is hard", which can be described as one in ten. It generally shows the farmers' hard-working life all year round without avoiding the cold and heat, rain, snow, wind and frost. "Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard" is not an empty sermon, nor a moaning without illness; It is similar to the profound motto, but it not only wins with its persuasiveness, but also embodies the poet's infinite resentment and sincere sympathy in this deep sigh.

Author's brief introduction

Li Shen Li Shen (772-846), a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was born in the seventh year of the Tang Dynasty, and his ancestral home was in Bozhou, Anhui. My father, Li Wu, served as county magistrate of Jintan, Wucheng (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang) and Jinling (now Changzhou, Jiangsu), and brought his family to Wuxi and settled in Meili Tuoli (now Dongting Chang Mansion Village, Wuxi, Jiangsu).