Newly-built fields are mud and flat, and every family cooks, and first frost is clear. The meaning of this sentence

Moral: The ground of the newly-built yard is as flat as a mirror, and every household sows rice on a sunny day after first frost.

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"The newly cultivated land is flat and flat, and every family plays rice, and first frost is sunny." From Fan Chengda's Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous Glory: Forty-four in the Song Dynasty.

Original text:

Newly-built fields are mud and flat, and every family cooks, and first frost is clear.

Laughter thundered and flail rang all night.

Translation:

The ground of the newly-built yard is as flat as a mirror, and every household takes advantage of the sunny day after frost to cook. The farmers laughed and sang, and the sound in the yard was as light as thunder. Throughout the night, farmers waved flails and beat rice until dawn.

Extended data

Four Seasons' Pastoral Fun is divided into five parts: spring, late spring, summer, autumn and winter, each with twelve songs and sixty songs. Poetry describes the rural scenery and farmers' life in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and also reflects the exploitation and suffering suffered by farmers.

Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous is like a long picture of rural life. There are 12 spring, 12 late spring, 12 summer village, 12 autumn and 12 winter. It describes the different scenes of the four seasons in the countryside and vividly depicts a dynamic picture of rural farming.

Fan Chengda's poems have a wide range of themes, and the works that reflect the content of rural social life have the highest achievements. Together with Yang Wanli, Lu You and You Mao, they are also known as the "Four Masters of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty.

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