Spring rain makes all the flowers fresh; spring thunder wakes up all hibernating animals. Since the day of the Awakening of Insects, the weather gets warm and the spring plowing begins. Robust young men farm the fields; their wives and kids stay at home preparing their vegetable patch for sowing. Young men work into the evening; still have to drive the cattle to the west for water. They are tired and hungry, but feel good inside when seeing their green seeds soak in the rain. They work day and night with no grain left; they are forced to live in servitude for their whole lives. Looking at this I feel ashamed. I receive an official's salary without doing any farm work.
About the poet: Wei Yingwu, a poet of Tang Dynasty, was born in Changan (Now Xi'an city in Shanxi province) in 737 and died in 792. Another saying goes, “he died in 793.”
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