Li Shen, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote many well-known poems, among which the most familiar poem is "Compassion for Nong". Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info hoe the day of the afternoon, sweat drops of grass into the soil. Who knows that Chinese food is hard work. Therefore, Li Shen also won the title of Minnong poet. He has been an official for many years, and it is said that he has also been a prime minister, but he is actually a bureaucrat with a luxurious life and poor character, and even some people feel that Li Shen is sorry for the poem he wrote.

Li Shen is a public servant, and his family has been an official for several generations, and his father died when he was six years old, and it was all up to his mother to raise him with hard work. Therefore, when Li Shen was young, he wrote poems such as "Compassion for Nong" that reflected the hard work of the peasants, which were based on his mother's teachings when he was a child and his own life. In the first year of Tang Xianzong's Yuanhe, Li Shen was admitted to the Jinshi this year, and he entered the official career at the age of only twenty-seven this year. He started as a teaching assistant in Guozi (the Tang Dynasty Guozijian had six halls, each with a doctor and a teaching assistant), and in his later years, he became an official to the prime minister, and was named the Duke of Zhao Guogong, and gradually transformed. According to later wild history, Li Shen was an official and "gradually extravagant", and the consumption of a meal was as high as several hundred. He especially likes to eat chicken tongue, a plate for each meal, it is said that each meal consumes more than 300 live chickens, and the chickens slaughtered in his backyard are piled up, of course, this is a wild history that cannot be believed or fully believed. The wild history records and does not say, and the official history records that Li Shen is keen on the struggle of the right party, which is the famous "Niu Li Party Dispute" in the Tang Dynasty in the later world. And the biggest stain in his life is the "Wu Xiang case" he handled in his later years, he insisted on forcibly sending Wu Xiang to the guillotine, but he died not long after, and his party opponents intervened led by Niu Monk and Ru, making the case complicated and confusing. At that time, Li Shen had died of old age and could no longer open his mouth to defend himself, so he could only let the other party say one thing in front of the emperor after the change. If he just lives a luxurious life, it is beyond reproach, but after he made his career, he loves to play with authority, and being ruthless and unrighteous is a poor character. It is recorded in "Yunxi Friendship Discussion" that before Li Shen's career, he often visited the home of a person named Li Yuanjiang, and every time he saw Li Yuanjiang, he called him "uncle". After Li Shen made his fortune, Li Yuanjiang took the initiative to lower his rank because he wanted to slap him, calling himself a "younger brother" and a "nephew", Li Shen was not happy, until Li Yuanjiang called himself a grandson, Li Shen reluctantly accepted. There was also a patrol officer surnamed Cui, who had a friendship with Li Shen, and once came to visit him, and had just stayed at a hotel when his servant had a fight with a citizen. When Li Shen heard this, he actually put the servant and the citizen to death, and ordered Inspector Cui to be arrested, and his friendship with the Kejin scholar was also very rare in the officialdom at that time. Because Li Shen was an official and brutal, the local people were often frightened, and many people even crossed the Yangtze River and the Huai River to flee.

Li Shen's poem "All Tang Dynasty Poems" is preserved in four volumes of his poems, and many famous poems are known to women and children and have been praised through the ages, but the historical truth is divided into different opinions. With the changes of the times and the change of modern Chinese Chinese, there are fewer and fewer creators of classical poetry, but this poem of Min Nong is an indispensable page of Chinese enlightenment education that inspires people to be diligent and thrifty, knowing that three meals a day are not easy to come by.