A poem about a shepherd boy playing the flute

Cowboys ride on the backs of oxen, and songs echo in the forest.

Source:

Yuan Mei, the author of What I See? Ching Dynasty

Cowboys ride on the backs of oxen, and songs echo in the forest.

Suddenly want to catch the song of the tree, immediately stop singing and stand by the tree silently.

Interpretation of vernacular: As the sun sets, the shepherd boy rides on the back of the cow, and the loud flute echoes in the forest.

Suddenly, I wanted to catch the cicada in singing in the trees, so I stopped singing and stood quietly by the tree.

Extended data writing background:

A five-character quatrain written by Yuan Mei, a writer in Qing Dynasty. This poem describes a little thing that the author happened to see a shepherd boy riding a cow and singing and catching cicadas. Through the description of the changes of the shepherd boy's movements and demeanor, it shows the shepherd boy's innocent and lively, witty and flexible personality characteristics and love for nature.

It depicts an innocent and happy picture of a shepherd boy in the forest, and expresses the author's love for rural scenery. Through the description of the natural environment and social life, the whole poem directly expresses the feelings of life. It seems carefree, but in fact it entrusts with feelings, and the language is lively and free and simple.

Yuan Mei loves life. After resigning, he lived in Jiangning and "lived in Cangshan for 30 years" (Panasonic works). He advocates expressing his temperament, and his writing style is mostly idle, ethereal and smooth, novel and dazzling. This poem is a scene in which the poet saw a shepherd boy singing on a cow in his life, suddenly stopped singing to catch cicadas after hearing cicadas, and then created it with great interest.