1. It's from Li Shen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.

2. Original text:

Two Poems about Peasants (Part I)

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.

3. Translation:

Sow a seed in spring, and you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.

There is not a field in the world that is not cultivated, but there are still farmers who farm and starve to death.

4. About the author:

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. His works have been handed down to this day, including three volumes of Poems on a Journey to the Past and one volume of Miscellaneous Poems, which are included in The Whole Tang Poetry.

5. Appreciation:

This poem profoundly reflects the miserable life of peasants in feudal times, and vividly depicts the fruitful scenes everywhere, highlighting the realistic problem that peasants worked hard to get a bumper harvest but were starved to death with empty hands.