Elementary school students must memorize ancient poems in the first and second grades to draw chickens [Ming] Tang Yin's red crown on his head does not need to be cut, and he walks in the future with a snow white body. In his lifetime, he did not dare to speak lightly, and told thousands of doors to open. 【About the Author】Tang Yin

Elementary school students must memorize ancient poems

Grades 1 and 2

Draw chickens

[Ming] Tang Yin

The red crown on the head does not need to be cut,

Walking in the snow with a snow white.

I don't dare to speak lightly in my life,

A thousand doors open.

【About the Author】

Tang Yin (1470-1523), a famous painter and writer of the Ming Dynasty, was born in Wu County (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). One of the four talents of Wu Zhong (Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin, Wen Zhengming, Xu Zhenqing), in the history of painting, together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying, is called "Ming Four Families" or "Wumen Four Families", and there are many folk legends about Tang Bohu, such as "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", "Jiangnan Four Talents", "Three Laughing Marriages" and so on.

【Notes】

(1) Red crown: refers to the crown of the rooster. (2) Crop: Crop. (3) Future: Come here.

(4) Light: easy. (5) Speech: Refers to the rooster chirping. (6) One: Once. (7) Thousands of households: describe the large number of people.

【Translation】

The crown on the head does not need to be cut,

Covered in snow-white feathers, he walked over.

It does not dare to shout easily in its lifetime,

Once the door of thousands of homes is called, it will open.

【Appreciation】

This is a poem with an inscription, but also a poem of supporting things. This is the second of three poems written by Tang Yin in the Golden Rooster Baoxiaotu. The poet first depicts the mighty form of the rooster, showing the red color of its crown and the snow white of its feathers, highlighting its beautiful and noble image. The last two sentences of the poem are the finishing touches, the poet first uses anthropomorphic techniques to say that the rooster "does not dare to speak lightly in his life", wants to promote the first inhibition, and then says "a thousand doors open", which means that after the rooster crows in the morning, people get up and open the door to start working. The poem praises the rooster's "no sound, one hit", and at the same time, shows the poet's lofty ambition to do something.