(Song) Fan Chengda

Tilling during the day, numb at night,

The children in the village are responsible for their own affairs.

Children and grandchildren have not been liberated to engage in farming and textile,

And learn to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees.

translate

Weeding in the fields during the day and rubbing hemp at home at night,

Both men and women in the village have their own household affairs.

Although children can't plow and weave,

I also learned to plant melons in the shade of that mulberry tree.

Brief analysis

This poem describes a scene of summer life in the countryside. The first sentence "Going out to plow during the day, getting hemp at night" means: Going out to cut the field during the day and rubbing hemp thread at night. "Success" means rubbing. "Tillage" means weeding. In early summer, the seedlings need weeding. This is what men should do. "Ji Ma" refers to women who rub twine and weave cloth at night after finishing other work during the day. This sentence directly wrote the labor scene. The second sentence "the children in the village mind their own affairs" refers to men and women. The whole poem uses the tone of an old farmer, and "children" refers to young people. "Being in charge" means that both men and women are not allowed to be idle and mind their own business. In the third sentence, "children and grandchildren are not prepared for farming and weaving", and "children and grandchildren" refer to those children who can neither farm nor weave, but are not idle. They have been in contact with and love labor since childhood, so they "learn to grow melons under the shade of mulberry trees" and learn to grow melons under the lush mulberry trees. This is a common phenomenon in rural areas, but it is quite distinctive. The conclusion shows the naive interest of rural children. With a fresh style, the poet described the tense working atmosphere in rural areas in early summer in a more delicate way, which made it interesting to read.