Poems praising the vegetable garden

1, the fields are full of water, the rice leaves are neat, the sunlight penetrates the trees and the smoke is low.

Source: New Grain by Ji Xu in Song Dynasty

In the endless rice fields, the water ripples slightly, and the neat rice is like a knife. The morning sun shines on the ground through the leaves, and the morning fog permeates the trees.

2. Beans are planted in Nanshan, and the grass is covered with bean seedlings. Get up early in the morning to get rid of weeds, and come back with hoes in the moonlight at night.

Source: Return to the Garden by Tao Yuanming in Wei and Jin Dynasties, Part III.

I plant beans at the foot of Nanshan, where weeds are flourishing and bean seedlings are sparse. Get up early in the morning to weed, and go home in the moonlight at night.

3, plum apricot fat, wheat cabbage flowers thin. No one has ever crossed the fence, but dragonflies and butterflies can fly

Source: Fan Chengda's Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous Glory, Part II in Song Dynasty.

Early summer is the season when plums are golden and apricots are plump. The ears of wheat are covered with white flowers, and almost all rape flowers are falling and bearing seeds. The days in summer are very long, no one passes the fence, everyone is busy in the fields, only dragonflies and butterflies are dancing leisurely.

The eaves are long and clean without moss, and the flowers and trees are planted by hand. One water protects the field and surrounds the green, and two mountains send green.

Source: Mr. Shu Huyin's Wall by Wang Anshi in Song Dynasty

The courtyard of the thatched cottage is often cleaned, so clean that there is no moss. Flowers, trees, rows and ridges are all planted by the owner himself. A small river outside the courtyard protects farmland and closely surrounds green seedlings; Two green hills open to give people green.

5. When you go out during the day, you are numb at night, and the children in the village are in charge. Although the children don't plow and weave, they also learn a kind of melon in the shade of mulberry trees.

Source: Miscellaneous Seven in Summer Village by Fan Chengda in Song Dynasty.

Weeding in the fields during the day and rubbing hemp thread at home at night, both men and women in the village have their own household affairs. Although the children can't plow and weave, they have learned to grow melons in the shade of mulberry trees.