The meaning of every sentence of Benjamin I and Benjamin II

1. At noon on the day of weeding, sweat dripped down the soil.

Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard?

At noon, the farmer was weeding in the field, and a drop of sweat fell to the ground. Who can know the origin of this meal? Every grain is so hard.

If you plant a millet in spring, you will reap 10,000 seeds in autumn.

There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death.

In spring, farmers can plant millet and harvest a lot of grain in autumn. Although all the land in this country is cultivated by farmers, farmers still starve to death because all their food has been taken away by officials.

Extended data:

Two Poems for Peasants is a set of poems by Li Shen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This group of poems profoundly reflects the living conditions of farmers in feudal China. The first poem vividly depicts the fruitful scene everywhere, highlighting the realistic problem that farmers have worked hard to get a bumper harvest, but they starve to death with empty hands;

The second song describes the scene of working in farmers' fields at noon in the scorching sun, which generally shows the hard work life of farmers all year round. Finally, the poet expressed his heartfelt sympathy for the farmers with the motto "Who knows that every meal is hard". The poetry anthology selected typical life details and well-known facts, and concentrated on describing the social contradictions at that time.

The style of the whole poem is simple and heavy, the language is popular and simple, the syllables are harmonious and bright, the combination of reality and reality, and the comparative application enhances the expressive force of the whole poem. These two poems are not only widely circulated among the people, but also have a certain influence in the history of literature. In modern times, they are chosen as ideological textbooks for primary schools.

Creation background

According to Fan Gang's Yunxi Friendship in the Tang Dynasty and Lu Shu's Biography of Wei in the old Tang Dynasty, it can be roughly inferred that this group of poems was written by Shen Li in the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (799).

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia: Be kind to farmers