Fan Chengda 范成大
official · poet · Suzhou, Southern Song China · 1126–1193
An official and poet of the Southern Song. He went as envoy to the Jin, and in old age retired to Stone Lake, his home, and wrote sixty poems on the four seasons of the countryside.
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By day they go out to weed the fields, by night they twist hemp. The sons and daughters of the village each do their share. The little grandchildren do not yet know how to plough or weave, but in the shade of the mulberry they too are learning to plant melons.
晝出耘田夜績麻，村莊兒女各當家。
童孫未解供耕織，也傍桑陰學種瓜。"Miscellaneous Pleasures of the Fields in the Four Seasons," summer
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