"Plums are golden and apricots are fat, wheat flowers are white and cauliflower is rare" and "children and grandchildren are not ready for farming and weaving, but also learn to grow melons by mulberry shade" is a description of what season. "Plums are golden and apricots are fat, wheat flowers are white and cauliflower is thin" should describe the late spring and early summer.

Song-Fan Chengda-Four Seasons Pastoral Hybridization

Year: Song Dynasty

Author: Fan Chengda

Title: Four Seasons of Pastoral Miscellaneous Fun

Content:

Plums are golden and apricots are fat, wheat flowers are white and cauliflower is thin.

No one has ever crossed the fence, only dragonflies and butterflies fly.

Notes:

(1) Maihua-Maixiusui is called Tuhua, which is white and green. It is between April and May of the lunar calendar in Suzhou, south of the Yangtze River. Cauliflower-refers to rape flower. Bright yellow, falling flowers and bearing seeds in April and May of the lunar calendar, so it is said to be "rare".

(2) day length-the longest day in the summer solstice. The fence fell-the fence.

Translation:

Plums have turned golden and apricots have grown fat. The golden cauliflower in the field in spring has now fallen, leaving only scattered residual flowers; At first glance, it is snow-white wheat flowers. At noon, the sun is high above, and the shadow of the fence is getting shorter and shorter as the sun rises, and no one passes by. It was quiet all around, only dragonflies and butterflies flew by.

"Children and grandchildren are not ready for farming and weaving, but also learn to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees" means that children learn to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees, although they don't know how to farm and weave.