Sow a seed in spring and you can harvest a lot of food in autumn. Source: Two Poems of "Compassion for Farmers" by Tang. 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 under the scorching sun, which generally shows the hard work life of farmers all year round. Who would have thought that our bowl of rice and grain are full of the blood and sweat of farmers? This approximate and far-reaching maxim expresses the poet's sincere sympathy for the peasants. 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.
If a millet is planted in spring, 10,000 seeds will be harvested in autumn.
There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death.
Sow a seed in spring and you can harvest a lot of food in autumn.
There is not a piece of land that is not cultivated, but farmers still starve to death.