At noon in summer, the sun is very hot, farmers are still working, and beads are dripping into the soil. Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard?
What is "noon"?
I found a Chinese lesson plan from the Internet-show mercy to farmers (anonymous): I used my own words to express the meaning of this sentence (in the hot summer, at the hottest noon, farmers are weeding seedlings under the scorching sun. The farmer was so tired that he was sweating all over, and the sweat dripped into the soil under the seedlings.
I also searched an article "Appreciation of Farmers" (anonymous): "Weeding till noon, sweat drips down the soil." Depicted in the hot noon sun, farmers are still working in the fields, dripping sweat on the scorching land.
Some people interpret this poem as Sunny. Wait, and so on. * * * The same thing is that noon is interpreted as noon, including the so-called "hottest time at noon", which is also noon.
I think this explanation is not completely reasonable and not accurate enough. Semantically, "when a day is noon" means when it comes. For example, Shu Wei Cui Liangchuan: "But let me be a gentleman and know what I mean." Jin Dong explained Yuan's The West Chamber: "There will be four wolves." Yuan Guan Hanqing's Return of Pei Du: "This person is not trivial, and this person will come one day."
So "every day is noon" should be interpreted as "every day will be noon" In other words, it's almost noon, and farmers are still sweating in the fields, weeding and loosening the soil for crops. This is the basic meaning of "weeding at noon and sweating down the soil".
I wrote this article because I watched a program recorded by a local TV station (either Shanxi TV station or Shaanxi TV station). Teacher L, a guest on the stage, impromptu explained the famous Tang poem "Cutting the grass at noon". He said that he has always been puzzled by farmers shoveling the ground at noon in the scorching sun. Later, I finally understood, because there is a dish called "Xiao" (small root garlic), because the root is too thick, and it must be shoveled down at noon when the sun is at its peak to die. Otherwise, shovel it down at night and get some dew at night and live again. To this effect.
Teacher L is knowledgeable and eloquent, and the audience, including me, like it very much.
But there are two problems. First, since it is a vegetable, many people like to eat it. Why do farmers risk heatstroke by shoveling it down instead of taking it home to eat, but leaving it in the ground to die?
Second, the sun at noon is the most poisonous, just like fire, and it is hotter in the south. Working in the hot sun at noon can make people get sunburned, which is not only easy to get heatstroke, but also causes third-degree burns.
Why must it be understood as noon? I'm afraid this is because teachers have taught since childhood, and no one has ever doubted it. Therefore, even the profound teacher L has consciously or unconsciously become a "trap"!
Some people may not be convinced when I say this. They think that there are so many farmers in the world that it is impossible to guarantee that there is really one who is not afraid of the sun and wants to shovel the ground under the scorching sun. This scene was seen by poets who also walked in the hot noon sun, so it was written into Tang poetry and then passed down through the ages.
To say that in history, anything can happen under extremely abnormal circumstances, such as the bayonet of Japanese devils. In order to extract the wealth of the people in the occupied areas, the brutal invaders completely ignored the lives of coolies. This situation should exist.
Even in the past, when there was a lot of cajoling, some grass-roots cadres gave orders blindly and asked rural members to carry hoes to the ground at noon 12: 30. But when I dawdled to the ground, it was past noon.
There is also a very popular work during the Cultural Revolution, Midnight Cockcrow, which buried the skin of the old landlord Zhou, saying that he learned cock crow in the middle of the night, urged long-term workers to be poor and farm labourers, and worked hard for him in the dark.
In fact, the old landlords in real life are experts who understand the laws of land and labor. Generally, he won't drive away the long-term workers who can't wake up in the dark to farm for him, as is vilified in literary works, which will not only plant crops badly, but also harm himself!
No rest, no work. Farmers also understand this truth. No matter how busy you are, you always have a rest, lunch and a nap at noon. Especially in summer, not to mention. Only when you have a good rest and avoid the hottest time, when the weather gets cold, can you work harder and improve production efficiency.
Having said that, I want to say one more thing. 1963 65438+1On October 29th, Premier Zhou Enlai pointed out in his speech at the Shanghai Science and Technology Work Conference: "We should realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology!"
More than half a century has passed, has the agricultural modernization in the "four modernizations" been realized?
Yes, farmers today have enjoyed the fruits of agricultural modernization.
Let's say spring planting and autumn harvest. It used to be the busiest season Before, I had to be busy for months. Before the first month, I had to be busy delivering manure in Abel Tamata. Now machinery is widely used. Whether it is spring ploughing or autumn harvest, it takes half a day's labor. One day less than half a day, you can get rid of it. The rest of the time is to enjoy life. Herbicide has replaced hoes. In the season of hoeing, you don't need to wave your hoe and work hard in the "hottest time" or "scorching sun"!