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This is Ouyang Xiu's landscape poem describing Xiaoman solar terms. The text of the work is as follows:

Xiaoman, the five wonders

At night, the warbler sings green willows, and the bright moon wakes up in the sky.

I love long-headed wheat most, and I laugh in the wind.

Translation:

The nightingale crows freely on the lush willow branches, and the bright moon illuminates the sky in the Wan Li. The flowers gradually fell, turned red and matured, only the wheat seedlings thrived, and the immature but full-filled wheat swayed in the wind.

Extended data

The language of this poem is simple and profound. The word "smile" uses personification to endow Mairen with modality, vividly describes the scene of wheat thriving in the breeze of Xiaoman season, and fully expresses the poet's inner joy.

Introduction of solar terms: Xiaoman is one of the 24 solar terms and the second solar term in summer. It means that the seeds of summer crops are full, but immature, just small and not full. From May 20th to 22nd every year, when the sun reaches 60 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is considered as a small full moon.

At this time, the early rice in the north of China began to ear, and small grains began to appear on the rice, and the south entered the summer sowing and summer harvest season. Judging from the climate characteristics, from Xiaoman solar term to the next Mang solar term, all parts of the country entered summer one after another, the temperature difference between north and south further narrowed, and precipitation further increased.

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