Original text:
At noon in summer, the sun is very hot, farmers are still working, and beads are dripping into the soil.
Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard?
Translation:
Farmers are weeding in the midday sun, and sweat drips from them on the land where seedlings grow.
Who knows that every meal on the plate is bought by farmers with hard work?
Precautions:
Benjamin: What a pity. There is sympathy here. The order of these two poems is different in different versions.
Grass: a general term for cereal plants.
Rice: a "rice". A generic term for cooked food.
All: all, all.
About the author:
Li Shen (772-846) was born in Wuxi, Runzhou (now Wuxi, Jiangsu). In the first year of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong (806), he was imprisoned for offending powerful people. Tang Wuzong was the prime minister, and later served as our envoy to Huainan. He had close contacts with Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi and others. Before Yuan Zhen and Bai advocated the "new Yuefu", he wrote 20 poems about the new Yuefu, which have been lost now, and he is one of the advocates of the new Yuefu movement. The Whole Tang Poetry recorded three volumes of Poems for Remembrance and one volume of Miscellaneous Poems.
Creative background:
This was written by Shen Li on the recommendation of Lu Wen, proofreader of Jixian Temple. It can be inferred that it was written in the 15th year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (799).
Appreciate:
It depicts the scene of working in farmers' fields at noon in the scorching sun, which generally shows the hard life of farmers all year round. Finally, he expressed the poet's sincere sympathy for the peasants with a motto close to the meaning.