The literal meaning of the whole poem: hoeing the ground during the day and rubbing hemp at night. Both men and women on the farm are doing their own things. Children don't know how to farm and weave, but also learn to grow melons under the shade of mulberry trees.
The whole poem is as follows: plow during the day, collect horses at night, and the children in the village are in charge. Although the children don't plow and weave, they also learn a kind of melon in the shade of mulberry trees.
Appreciation: This poem describes a scene of rural life in early summer. The first sentence "Going out to plow during the day, getting hemp at night" means: Going out to cut the field during the day and rubbing hemp thread at night. "Success" means rubbing. "Tillage" means weeding. In early summer, the seedlings need weeding. This is what men should do. "Ji Ma" refers to women who rub twine and weave cloth at night after finishing other work during the day. This sentence directly wrote the labor scene. The second sentence "the children in the village mind their own affairs" refers to men and women. The whole poem uses the tone of an old farmer, and "children" refers to young people. "Being in charge" means that men and women are not allowed to be idle and make their own decisions. In the third sentence, "children and grandchildren are not prepared for farming and weaving", and "children and grandchildren" refer to those children who can neither farm nor weave, but are not idle. They have been in contact with and love labor since childhood, so they "learn to grow melons under the shade of mulberry trees" and learn to grow melons under the lush mulberry trees. This is a common phenomenon in rural areas, but it is quite distinctive. The conclusion shows the naive interest of rural children. With a fresh style, the poet described the tense working atmosphere in rural areas in early summer in a more delicate way, which made it interesting to read.