{"id":13015,"date":"2019-11-18T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-literature-2\/return-to-my-fields-gui-yuan-tian-ju\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:46:05","slug":"return-to-my-fields-gui-yuan-tian-ju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/return-to-my-fields-gui-yuan-tian-ju\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to My Fields \u5f52\u56ed\u7530\u5c45"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gu\u012b Yuán Tián J\u016b
\u5f52 \u56ed \u7530 \u5c45<\/p>\n

Táo Yu\u0101nmíng \uff08Jìn \uff09
\u9676\u6e0a\u660e\uff08\u664b\uff09<\/p>\n

Zhòng dòu nán sh\u0101n xià,<\/p>\n

\u79cd \u8c46 \u5357 \u5c71 \u4e0b\uff0c<\/p>\n

c\u01ceo shèng dòu miáo x\u012b.
\u8349 \u76db \u8c46 \u82d7 \u7a00\u3002<\/p>\n

Chén x\u012bng l\u01d0 hu\u0101ng huì,
\u6668 \u5174 \u7406 \u8352 \u79fd\uff0c<\/p>\n

dài yuè hé chú gu\u012b.
\u5e26 \u6708 \u8377 \u9504 \u5f52\u3002<\/p>\n

Dào xiá c\u01ceo mù cháng,
\u9053 \u72ed \u8349 \u6728 \u957f\uff0c<\/p>\n

x\u012b lù zh\u0101n w\u01d2 y\u012b.
\u5915 \u9732 \u6cbe \u6211 \u8863\u3002<\/p>\n

Y\u012b zh\u0101n bù zú x\u012b,
\u8863 \u6cbe \u4e0d \u8db3 \u60dc\uff0c<\/p>\n

dàn sh\u01d0 yuàn wú wéi.
\u4f46 \u4f7f \u613f \u65e0 \u8fdd\u3002<\/p>\n

Return to My Fields<\/p>\n

Tao Yuanming(Jin)<\/p>\n

Under the southern hill I grow the pea and bean,<\/p>\n

For the weeds the tender shoots are sparse and lean.<\/p>\n

With the sun I rise the weeds to remove,<\/p>\n

In moonlight, shouldering a hoe, I homeward move.<\/p>\n

The narrow path is overgrown with long grass,<\/p>\n

The evening dews wet my clothes as I pass.<\/p>\n

I’m not so much worried a<\/em>bout my attire,<\/p>\n

As being unable to follow my cherished desire.<\/p>\n

Comment:<\/p>\n

Easy and plain to understand, the poem reveals how an intellectual official after leaving his governmental position relishes the freedom and serenity by living in seclusion and working in the field while worrying whether he will be able to stand the arduous fieldwork and keep his promise to stay away from officialdom for ever. As he lacks farming experience, weeds grow in his bean plot while the bean shoots are few and sparse. He even does not care whether the evening dewdrops wet his clothes, o<\/em>nly hoping to keep his promise to live and farm in the countryside.
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