An ancient poem describing the busyness of spring plowing and farming

An ancient poem describing the busyness of spring plowing is as follows:

1. The father plows the mulberry field, and the shepherd boy follows him with the hoe. ——Meng Haoran, "Tian Jia Yuan Ri"

Translation: Close to a farmer working in a field full of mulberry trees, carrying a hoe and working together with the shepherd boy.

2. Holding an ax to cut down the distant mountains, hoeing the spring veins. -Wang Wei's "Pastoral Works in Spring"

Translation: Holding an ax to trim the long branches of the mulberry tree, picking up a hoe to inspect the path of the spring.

3. A good horse will leave you alone, and you will end up thirty miles away. Also serve you and cultivate, ten thousand dimensional coupling. ——Anonymous "Song of Zhou · Ai Xi"

Translation: The field officials push your Sichuan to the fields for thirty miles. We cooperated vigorously with your farming, and ten thousand people worked together to form five thousand pairs.

4. The west wind carries the fragrance of grass and millet, and the sound of spring falls in Dou Valley. ——Kong Pingzhong's "He Shu"

Translation: The west wind blows across the plain, bringing the fragrance of grain and millet. The splashing spring poured into the ditch, and the threshing floor was busy.

5. The Tian family has a quiet month, but in May people are twice as busy. ——Bai Juyi's "Guan Mowing Wheat"

Translation: Farmers have no leisure all year round, and they are even busier in May.

6. Even though spring is not yet deep, a few acres are still enough for tenant farming. ——Wang Shouren, "I am relegated to Liangjue, please learn from the words of the farmer general Tian Nanshan and express my feelings"

Translation: Before spring has passed, plant these few acres of land as soon as possible.

7. There is no idle land in the world, and farmers are still starving to death. ——Li Shen's "Two Poems of Compassion for Farmers"

Translation: There is no uncultivated field in the world, and the toiling farmers will still starve to death.

8. Calling for children in the middle of the night and plowing at dawn, the oxen are unable to move and are gradually struggling. ——Yan Renyu, "Farmhouse"

Translation: I called the children in the middle of the night and rushed to the fields to plow the soil at dawn.

9. The young and strong are all in the wild, and the fields and gardens are also in order. ——Wei Yingwu's "Guantian Family"

Translation: The young and strong people went to the fields to cultivate the land, and the yards were converted into vegetable plots and sorted out.

10. There are few idle people in the countryside in April, so they are planting sericulture and planting fields. - "April in the Village" by Weng Juan of the Song Dynasty

Translation: There are very few idle people in April in the countryside. They have just finished picking mulberry and raising silkworms, and are busy planting rice seedlings.