What does each sentence of children’s fishing mean?

The shaggy-headed child is learning fishing, sitting sideways in the shadow of strawberry grass. ?

Interpretation: A child with disheveled hair and a green face is learning to fish by the river. He is sitting sideways in the grass, with his figure hidden by the weeds.

Passers-by asked and waved, fearing that they would be frightened and ignored.

Interpretation: When a passerby asked for directions, the child waved his hand indifferently, fearing to disturb the fish and not daring to respond to the passerby.

Source: Hu Linngneng, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

Extended information

"Children's Fishing" was written by Hu Lingneng after he went to the countryside to find a friend and asked the fishing children for directions. Its specific creation time has not been confirmed.

This poem describes the scene of a child concentrating on fishing by the water. Through the description of typical details, it extremely vividly reproduces the child's seriousness, innocence and childishness.

There are only four poems by Hu Linneng in the "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty". Among them, "Children Fishing" is his representative work. He writes about a "unkempt child" learning to fish, "sitting sideways and reflecting on the strawberry grass." , passers-by waved to him and wanted to ask him something, but the child was "afraid of frightening the fish and not saying a word" (fearing that the fish would be frightened). It was really vivid and lifelike, and his artistic achievements were no less than Du Mu's famous A poem called "Qingming".