Country April

[Song] Weng Juan

Full of mountains and green, full of white rivers,

In the regular sound, the rain began to rain like smoke.

There are few idle people in the countryside in April.

Only when sericulture is planted in the field.

[Edit this paragraph] Author introduction

Weng Juan, born in Yueqing, Wenzhou (now Zhejiang), was a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. He, Zhao Shixiu, Zhao Xu and Ji Xu are also called "Yongjia Four Spirits". Most of his poems are skillful and unpretentious.

[Edit this paragraph] Note

(1) Baimanchuan-refers to the water color reflecting the skylight in rice fields. Chuan, flat land.

Rule of two-cuckoo.

(3) only-just finished. .

(4) Yamahara-Yuanye and Shanling.

(5) sericulture-planting mulberry and sericulture.

[Edit this paragraph] Translation

(1, 2 sentences) The fields on the hillside are lush with vegetation, and the water color in the rice fields reflects the skylight. The sky is misty and rainy, cuckoos are crying, and the earth is thriving.

April has arrived, and no one is idle. As soon as sericulture is finished, the seedlings will be transplanted.

[Edit this paragraph] Center

The whole poem highlights the intense and busy work in the countryside in April. The whole poem is like a colorful picture, which not only shows the poet's love and praise for the rural scenery, but also shows his praise for the working people and working life.

[Edit this paragraph] Appreciate

This poem describes the spring scenery in rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River in a simple way. The first two sentences focus on scenery: green plains, white rivers, Zigui, misty rain. A few strokes outline the unique scenery of the early summer water town. The last two sentences are about people. The picture mainly highlights the image of farmers transplanting rice in paddy fields, thus setting off the tension and busyness of rural labor in April. Call before and answer after, interweaving into a colorful picture. In April in the south of the Yangtze River, the hillside is green, Yuan Ye is green, and green trees, grass and seedlings are displayed in front of the poet, which is a world dominated by green. In the green Yuan Ye, rivers and canals crisscross, and the roads are full, flowing and white; Paddy fields filled with water are also white. Looking up, the green fields and the white water are all shrouded in faint smoke. Is that fog? A cigarette? No, it was a drizzle. From time to time, a few cuckoo calls came from the trees and the air. The first two sentences of the poem describe the scenery of Jiangnan in early summer, with broad vision and delicate brushwork; Bright colors and hazy artistic conception; Dynamic and static combination, vivid and colorful. "The rain is like smoke in the sound of the sub-gauge", and the drizzle like smoke seems to be summoned by the sub-gauge, which is particularly sense of realm. "In April, there were few idle people in the countryside, and only silkworms were planted in the fields." The last two sentences are about busy farming in early summer in Jiangnan. Mulberry picking, sericulture and transplanting are two major agricultural activities related to food and clothing. Now is the busy farming season, and every household is very busy. Don't take the last sentence of the poem too seriously, thinking that every family picks mulberry to feed silkworms first, and some people transport seedlings and some transplant them; Some people put silkworms into the field first, some people put silkworms into the field first, some people are only busy with one of them, and many people have to do something else. "Planting fields only when raising silkworms" is just a simplification, which outlines the busy atmosphere of rural farmers in April. As for not directly saying that people are too busy, just saying that there are few idle people, almost none. It is a deliberate euphemism, soothing, in order to maintain a calm and quiet tolerance in people's busy tension, and this calm and quiet is a harmonious and unified picture with the watercolor-style hazy tone described in the above two scenes.

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