At night, the south wind rises and the wheat turns yellow. What do you mean?

When the south wind comes at night, the wheat is yellow, which means that the south wind blows at night and the wheat covered with ridges is ripe and yellow.

This poem is excerpted from the poem "Watching Wheat" by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.

The poet's words are simple and clear, and these four sentences illustrate the background of the whole poem, indicating that May is the busy season for farmers to harvest wheat. From these four poems, the poet drew the following description of the busy scene of farmers harvesting wheat, and vividly described the hardships of farmers' work and life through simple narrative methods.

original text

The Tian family has less leisure in the month, and people are twice as busy in May.

In the evening, the south wind rises and the wheat turns yellow.

A woman's husband is hungry and her child is pregnant with pot pulp.

Go with Tian Xiang. Ding Zhuang is in Nangang.

Summer is steaming and rustic, and the back is burning.

I don't know about the heat, but I regret the long summer.

Another poor woman, holding her son,

Grab the ear with your right hand and hang the basket with your left arm.

Listening to his words of concern is very sad.

My family's taxes are gone, so I can take this to satisfy my hunger.

Today, I have no merit, and I have never worked in farming and mulberry.

There are three hundred stones in the land, and there is surplus food at the age of eight.

I am ashamed to read this in private, and I can't forget it every day.