Four Seasons Pastoral Excitement (Twenty-five) [Song Dynasty] Fan Cheng has large golden plums, fat apricots, and sparse wheat and snow white cauliflowers. No one passes through the fence during the long day, only dragonflies and butterflies fly.

1. Introduction to the author

Fan Chengda (June 26, 1126-October 1, 1193), with the courtesy name Zuneng and Youyuan, was named this in his early years. Shan Jushi, later known as Shihu Jushi. Han nationality, from Wuxian County, Pingjiang Prefecture (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). A famous minister, writer and poet in the Southern Song Dynasty.

2. Problem Solving

Four Seasons: refers to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter; Zaxing: poems written casually. "Pastoral Miscellany in Four Seasons (Part 25)" is the pastoral poem written by Fan Chengda casually throughout the year. This is the 25th poem.

3. Understanding of key words

Liluo: fence (synonymous with "Liluo" in "The fence is sparse and deep" in "Xugongdian, Suxin City" ).

Only: only.

Nymphaloid: a type of butterfly.

4. Understanding the meaning of poetry

In early summer, the plum trees are covered with golden plums, the apricots are also ripe, and the fruits are round and full. The days are getting longer in summer, and no one is walking around the fence (people have gone to work in the fields). Only dragonflies and butterflies are flying freely.

5. Poetry Interpretation and Appreciation

This is a pastoral poem describing the early summer season, which paints us a beautiful, harmonious rural scene where everyone has their own place.

In the first and second sentences, the author focuses on fruit trees and crops, describing the growth scenes of plums and apricots, two fruit trees growing beside rural houses, and wheat and rape, respectively. The characteristics of these plants are described to us in terms of color and "majestic appearance", which gives a sense of liveness. The plums are ripe and golden in color; the apricots are ripe and the fruits are round and full; the wheat is blooming and snow-white; the rapeseed flowers are about to fade, and the rapeseed stalks are covered with long and slender green rapeseed pods, with their tops still There are dots of golden flowers hanging on it. The word "rare" describes the situation in the rapeseed field where there are many green pods and few cauliflowers.

These two sentences are almost line drawings, but the author uses words such as "golden", "fat", "snow-white" and "rare", and it can be read that the weather has been good this year, and the fruit trees and farmers are growing well. Well, there is a hazy "joyfulness" in the poem.

In the third and fourth sentences, the author writes "busy" in "leisure". Fences, usually placed on the edge of vegetable gardens in farmyards, are erected along the roadside to protect the gardens from livestock damage. At this time, on the long summer day, there were no "idlers" walking around the courtyard fence, only the dragonflies and butterflies flying "leisurely". Where are people? Where did it go? Went to the fields to weed and cultivate.

Looking at the whole poem, we can actually understand it this way: In the countryside in early summer, the plums are golden with their own golden color; the apricots are full with their own fullness; the wheat flowers are white with their own snow white; the cauliflower is sparse and the cabbage pods are green ; Beside the fence, dragonflies and butterflies are flying freely; farmers are busy in the fields. At this time, in the countryside, all kinds of people, things and scenery are in their proper place, harmonious and beautiful, and full of vitality! Seeing this, a feeling of joy poured into the heart of the poet Fan Chengda.