Author: Fan Chengda

During the day, weeding in the fields and rubbing hemp thread at home at night, the men and women in the village took on all the housework.

Although the children don't plow and weave, they also learn a kind of melon in the shade of mulberry trees.

Adults go out to farm during the day and come back at night to rub hemp ropes and weave. The mature women in the village are doing their own farm work and housework. Children can neither farm nor weave with hemp rope, but they also learn to plant fruits and vegetables under mulberry trees like adults.

Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous Glory (Part Two)

Author: Fan Chengda

Plum golden apricot fat, wheat white, cauliflower thin.

No one has ever crossed the fence, but dragonflies and butterflies can fly

Plums are attractive golden yellow, apricots are full; Looking around, buckwheat is gray and rape flowers are sparse. As the day grows longer, the shadow of the fence becomes shorter and shorter as the sun rises, and it does not coincide with anyone; Only dragonflies and butterflies dance.

Analysis: The above two poems are all about summer, and the season of poetry description can be judged from the "plowing" in the first poem and the "golden plum" in the second poem.

Sixty Pastoral Poems of Four Seasons is a group of large-scale pastoral poems written by Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, after he retired. It is divided into five parts: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter, with 60 songs in each part 12. Poetry describes the rural scenery and farmers' life in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and also reflects the exploitation and suffering suffered by farmers.

In which spring 12, late spring 12, summer village 12, autumn 12, winter 12, * * 60. This paper describes the different scenes of the four seasons in pastoral areas and vividly draws a dynamic pastoral picture.

Quote from: Baidu Encyclopedia