Li Shen 李紳
poet · official · Tang China · 772–846
A Tang poet and official, remembered for two short poems on the hard life of farmers.
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late 8th century
He hoes the grain under the noonday sun, and his sweat drips on the soil beneath the stalks. Who knows that the food in the dish, every grain of it, is hardship?
鋤禾日當午，汗滴禾下土。
誰知盤中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。"Old Style," the second poem, usually called "Pity for the Farmers," in the Complete Tang Poems
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