Thousand Characters

Chapter 42

[Original text]

The root cause of the problem lies in agriculture, so that we can harvest crops.Chuzai Nanmu, I am art millet.

【Note】

Ben: Not at all.Work: engaged in.Jia: originally refers to the ears and fruits of the seedlings.Harvesting: Originally refers to harvesting crops, the ancients called spring plowing as harvesting, and autumn harvesting as harvesting.The two words Jiarong together represent the whole process of agricultural production.Chu: Start.South acres: land facing the sun.Art: planting, cultivating.Millet: Millet and millet are the two most important food crops of the ancients. Yellow rice is called millet and millet is called millet. Starting from these four sentences, "Thousand Characters" describes to people in detail the warm friendship in the world and the peaceful pastoral life, and praises those who are willing to be lonely, give silently, and are not fettered by fame and fortune.Here again, people are told that the sowing and harvesting of crops must be done well. Only when all kinds of crops are harvested can the common people live a happy life.

【Interpretation】

The root of governing a country is to vigorously develop its own agriculture, which requires doing a good job in sowing and harvesting crops.At the beginning, he had to engage in agricultural cultivation and production on the sunny land, planting and cultivating food crops such as yellow rice and millet by himself.

(End of this chapter)