154 The Book of Songs, National Style, Pig Wind, July

In the seventh month of the summer calendar, the "fire" star descends, and in September, the work of cutting winter clothes is entrusted to women. November (January of the Zhou calendar) is a sound of strong winds, and December is cold. How do you get through the year without clothes?

In January (March of the Zhou calendar), repair the tools of the plow, and in February, raise the foot and step on the ploughing field. Together with my wife and children, I delivered food to the farmland. Tian was very happy to see the peasants working in the fields.

In the seventh month of the summer calendar, the "fire" star descends, and in September, the work of cutting winter clothes is entrusted to women. In March, the summer calendar begins to warm up, and the yellow warbler chirps. The young girl carried a deep basket and walked along the path, looking for the tender mulberry leaves.

In spring, the days are long and the sunsets are late, and many white artemisia are picked. The woman was sad in her heart, afraid that she would meet the son of the monarch and be coerced by the prince to return together.

In the seventh month of the summer calendar, the fire stars descend and the reeds are collected in August. Silkworms take mulberry branches, take the axe, and cut down the mulberry branches that are excessive next to them (because they obstruct the road, so they must be cut off), and pull the soft mulberry. In July the shrike chirped, and in August the fibers of the hemp began to be woven into yarn (for weaving).

Dye) is black, red and yellow, and my big red is very vivid, making clothes for my son.

Plants tassel and bloom in April, and cicadas chirp in May. Crops are harvested in August, and the grass and trees are yellow and leaves are dead in October. In November, he hunted the beast, took the fox, and made a leather coat for his son. December will hunt, continue to hunt. I have possessed the small beast for myself, and I have offered the great beast to the ruler.

In May, the scorpion makes a sound, and in June, the sand chicken makes a sound. July in the field, August under the eaves, September in the house, October crickets under my bed. Find all the rat holes and block them, and use smoke to drive the rats out and kill them.

Block the north-facing windows and paint the door gaps with mud (to keep out the cold). It's a pity that my wife and children entered this house to live in the New Year (people generally lived in the fields in the field during the busy agricultural season in the Zhou Dynasty, and only lived indoors in the east).

In June, they eat plum and sage (a type of wild grape), and in July they steam hollyhock (vegetable name) and bean leaves. Dates are harvested in August and rice is harvested in October. It is made in the winter and made in the spring, and it is used to pray for longevity.

Eat melons in July, cut gourds in August, and pick hemp seeds in September. Picking bitter herbs and burning them as firewood to feed our farmers.

In September, the earth is rammed "in the threshing floor" (to make it fruitful), and in October (in October) the grain is fed into the granary. Millet, millet (refers to the non-sticky, a kind of millet), early planting and late maturing grain, late planting and early maturing cereal, and hemp, beans and wheat. Sorry for us farmers!

The grain was gathered in the granary, and the ruler's house was served as a servant of repairing the house. Cutting thatch during the day, rubbing rope at night, hurriedly climbing to the roof (repairing houses), and sowing grain at the beginning of the year (early spring).

In December, the ice was chiseled (made) and put into the ice cellar in January. In the early February Dynasty (a ritual to worship the god Sihan), lambs were sacrificed to leeks. In September, the autumn is crisp, in October, the world is clear, two bottles of wine gather and feast, and the lamb is slaughtered.

Ascend to the court hall where the monarch receives foreign guests and people, and hold up the wine vessel made of rhinoceros horn, (congratulations) for a long life that has no end.