The description method in Bohr's Looking at the Harvest Wheat,

The opening of the poem explains time and environment. "Farmers have less leisure in that month, but people are twice as busy in May." When people are twice as busy in May, the following things will happen. The narrative is clear, the structure is natural, the hierarchy is clear and the logic is strict. Explain the background at the beginning, indicating that May is the busy season for wheat harvest and agriculture. Then write down that women lead their children to the fields to give food and water to young people who are cutting wheat. Later, it described young farmers cutting wheat with their heads down in Nangang wheat field, fumigating their feet with the heat, and baking their backs in the hot sun. They are tired and don't feel hot, but they just cherish the long days in summer and can do more work. These two sentences always affect the whole body, revealing the author's sympathy for the working people at the beginning; "At night, the south wind rises and the wheat is covered with yellow." There is a harvest scene, and the big picture is pleasing to the eye, but no one can think of the sadness of farmers under this harvest scene.

At this point, the farmer's hard work has been strongly demonstrated. Then I described another sad scene: a poor woman, with a child in her arms and a broken basket in her hand, was picking wheat by the wheat harvester. Why are you picking wheat? Because her family's fields have "lost all taxes"-sold to pay the palace tax, and now there is no land to plant and no wheat to harvest, so we have to rely on wheat to satisfy our hunger. These two scenes are intertwined, with both differences and connections: the former reveals the hardships of farmers, while the latter reveals heavy taxes. Since heavy taxes have made poor women lose their fields, they will also make this peasant family who is cutting wheat lose their fields. Today's wheat pickers are yesterday's wheat pickers; Today's wheat harvesters may become tomorrow's wheat harvesters. Strong irony is self-evident.

Show this "busy" wheat harvest scene through specific families. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are carrying rice baskets, while little grandson is carrying a kettle. They are going to deliver meals to people who work in the fields. Men go to the fields before dawn; After getting up, women are busy with housework before cooking; The little grandson went to the fields with his grandma and mom when they were delivering food. They will work with the men after supper. This family is very busy in the field: "It's full of rustic heat and the sun is shining on its back. I don't know how hot it is, but the summer is long. " These four sentences describe the wheat harvest positively. Their faces face the earth and their backs face the blue sky. The bottom is steamed like a cage, and the top is roasted like fire. However, they waved their sickles with all their strength and cut them all the way forward. They seem to have completely forgotten the heat, because it is "the tiger's mouth grabs the food" and time must be seized. The weather is so hot and the days are so long, but people work hard and are afraid of wasting a little time, which shows how much people cherish the wheat they are about to get. The word "pity" is well used here, which is a kind of writing that goes against human nature to highlight the emotional strength of people here and now.

Through the description of a poor woman, the poem tells us that she can't survive because of taxes, and she can only make a living by harvesting wheat ears, which is poorer than the whole family's busy harvesting wheat ears. She held a child in her left hand, a broken bamboo basket in her arms, and picked up the fallen ears of wheat in her right hand. It was very tiring, but she gained little. But there was nothing she could do. At that time, it was the time to harvest wheat, and there were still ears of wheat to pick. Otherwise, she will have to beg in the street. Last year and the year before last, her family also had land to plant and money to collect Michael's family. It was only later that the tax was cornered and the real estate and land were changed, which led to this situation today. Readers can imagine that people who are busy harvesting now may, like her, have no land to plant next year and can only make a living by harvesting wheat ears.

The poet linked the pain of farmers' life with the ease of his own life, feeling ashamed and unable to calm down for a long time. This lyric text is the essence of the whole poem. It is the product of the author's touching feelings and shows the poet's deep sympathy for the working people. Bai Juyi wrote satirical poems with the aim of "only making people sick, and I hope the emperor knows." In this poem, he made a sharp contrast between the peasants and himself as a court official with his own personal feelings, that is, he hoped that the "son of heaven" was affectionate and tactful, which could be described as well-intentioned.

Faced with the tragic scene of a bumper harvest, the poet felt sorry for himself. The author shows the poet's deep sympathy for the working people. Comment at the end of the poem, which is the same name of many satirical poems by Bai Juyi. The discussion of this poem does not directly point to the root of social diseases, but shows the author's guilt and shame, which is also a vague criticism of the whole bureaucratic aristocratic society. Bai Juyi is just a small county commandant with three hundred stones. Those big bureaucrats and big noble should actually feel guilty. The emperor is in charge of taxes, and the author cannot openly oppose it. He can only use this ending to achieve the purpose of irony.

In Watching the Wheat Harvest, besides the wheat harvester, there is also a wheat picker, and the author's focus is more on the latter. At present, they are rich and poor in different degrees, but their fate is closely related. Gleaner, who is sad and poor today, was a hard and busy reaper yesterday; Today's hard-working and busy wheat pickers may be reduced to miserable wheat pickers tomorrow. As long as there are heavy taxes, the working people will never escape bankruptcy. Here, the author sharply criticized the tax system that harmed the people at that time and expressed deep sympathy for the suffering of the working people. Moreover, it is not general sympathy, but further putting the poet himself in, feeling that he is too different from the working people and guilty. Bai Juyi's poem truly reflects the thoughts and feelings of the working people and shouts out their voices. The basic feature of the whole poem in writing is to describe the real life scene truthfully without any exaggeration. The author chose two scenes of busy family and bleak gleaning, which made them form a strong contrast. Although the former is tired, there is still hope for the time being. As for the latter, it is completely duckweed, which is in jeopardy.

Bai Juyi's "Watching the Wheat Harvest" is short in space, but it vividly describes the hard and painful life scenes of wheat reapers and wheat pickers during the summer harvest. Not only wrote things, but also wrote hearts, including the author's own heart and the hearts of working people. What is commendable is that while describing the working people, the author can also truly write the voices of the working people, especially depicting the abnormal psychology of the working people in a certain situation and profoundly revealing the theme of the poem. In The Charcoal Man, "Poor man's clothes are simple, but he is worried about charcoal, wishing it would be cold", describing the abnormal psychology of the old man who sells charcoal because of food and clothing. "I don't know the heat when I'm exhausted, but I regret the long summer" in "Watching Wheat Cutting" is also a kind of abnormal psychology. This description depicts the working people's hearts in detail and goes deep into the details.

This poem is also skillful in wording and sentence making. The first two sentences of the poem use the words "idle month" and "double busy" to indicate that farmers have no idle month all year round, emphasizing that May is the busiest month of the year. With the word "yellow", the scene of bumper harvest in the field is briefly described. A "steaming" and a "burning", the heat of the weather and the hardship of farmers are all very real. Then, the words "I don't know" and "but regret" fully express the farmers' urgent mood of busy harvesting regardless of heat and fatigue. "Holding a child by my side, holding my ear in my right hand and hanging a basket on my left arm", several strokes outlined the miserable life of this poor woman. With a poor woman's joke, "My family has lost all taxes, so I can go and collect them to satisfy my hunger", I not only pointed out the reasons for picking up wheat, but also accused me of heavy taxes. And the words "lose all taxes" expose the ruling class's behavior of squeezing the people with heavy taxes to the fullest. The language of the whole poem is easy to understand, the rhythm is neat, and it is catchy to read, which also makes this poem widely circulated for a long time.

Reading the whole poem and hiding it for meditation are not only attracted by the distinctive realism spirit and exquisite artistic techniques in the poem, but also because the poet can reflect the social reality of the feudal era so deeply and express his heartfelt admiration and admiration for the working people.