The early morning sun filled the mountains and the fields were still wet.

When a woman cries, everyone is afraid to stand up.

Green and yellow have been collected, broken and picked up.

Birds and rats are full of official warehouses, and they are rented in today.

Li Gou, who was born in poverty, called himself "King Nan Cheng" and had a good understanding of the real life of ordinary people. He was a progressive thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was very critical of the traditional Confucianism. From the literary point of view, he opposed old words and advocated innovation. His poems mostly reflect the sufferings of the people and involve political gains and losses. His poems and words are often strange, stubborn, straightforward and fresh, which shows that they are influenced by Han Yu, Pi Rixiu and Lu Guimeng.

This poem is clear in narration, natural in structure, clear in hierarchy and strong in logic. The first two sentences of this poem say that harvest is a busy season. As soon as the morning sun appeared on the hill, the dew on the crops was still wet, and the farmers had already gone to work in the fields. Then I wrote that women send rice and water to young farmers who are cutting rice, but they miss their children at home and are afraid to stand down and talk to others on the road. Farmers harvest rice one by one in a mature order; The ears of rice that fell to the ground bent down to pick them up and put them in the laundry basket. The poet's description of these details shows that his observation is meticulous and in-depth. Through these descriptions, the hardships of farmers' labor and farmers' cherish of their own labor achievements are fully demonstrated. But in the last two sentences, the poem suddenly turned: "Birds and rats are full of official warehouses, so we rent them now." A batch of rented rice will be sent to the official warehouse again to feed the birds and rats. After all, "if you plant a millet in spring, you will reap 10 thousand seeds in autumn." After a year of hard work, farmers can have plenty of food and clothing. However, a large part of these grains will be sent to the official warehouse; Moreover, the warehouse management is not good, and many foods are eaten by sparrows and mice. Qian Zhongshu's Notes on Selected Poems of Song Dynasty quoted Yao Zeng's Classic Theory as a supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties, saying: "There was a law in the late Tang and Ming Dynasties, and people had to pay two liters of finches and mice for every stone of rice." Volume 30 of the History of the New Five Dynasties says: During the period of Emperor Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Zhang Wang, a cruel official, even changed two liters to two buckets, calling it "saving consumption", which shows that the history books have recorded this, and it is not an exaggeration.

Reading the poem Demi easily reminds us of Bai Juyi's Watching the Wheat Cut. The labor scene and harvesting process written by Baishi can also be found in this poem, such as "Mother-in-law pays for food" and "Go with the soldiers". Bai Juyi "died in his poems", and the irony in Li Gou's poems is self-evident. This poem rhymes with the word "Ru". Although "wet", "stand", "pick" and "ru" are all common words, we can already see the poet's efforts in refining words. The style of poetry is stubborn and stiff, which is obviously different from the popularity and fluency of white poetry.