One: plant a millet in spring and harvest 10 thousand seeds in autumn. There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death.

Second: When weeding at noon, sweat drips down the soil. Who would have thought that our bowl of rice and grain are full of the blood and sweat of farmers?

Translation:

One: Sow a seed in spring, and you can harvest a lot of food in autumn. There is not a piece of land that is not cultivated, but farmers still starve to death.

Secondly, farmers weed in the midday sun, and sweat drips from them on the land where the seedlings grow. Who knows that every meal on the plate is bought by farmers with hard work?

Extended data:

According to Fan Gang's Yunxi Friendship in the Tang Dynasty and Lu Shu's Biography of Wei in the old Tang Dynasty, it can be roughly inferred that this group of poems was written by Shen Li in the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (799).

The contents of these two poems are the most familiar things people often come into contact with. However, you don't really know what you are most familiar with. There are many things in life that you turn a blind eye to. If someone tries to enlighten you, explain the essence, or point out some truth involved, you will feel very eye-catching and clear, thus deepening your understanding. This is the reason why these two little poems have vitality.

In the first two sentences, the author didn't say how hard it is for farmers to farm and how hard it is for crops to grow. He just made a vivid rendering of the plot of farmers sweating in the hot sun, which made people make this hard and hard taste more concrete, profound and real.

Therefore, the poet finally said in a rhetorical tone that "everyone knows that every meal is hard" is very convincing. In particular, comparing the grain to a drop of sweat is really subtle and vivid.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Two Poems of Compassion for Farmers