Liang Si

The preface to the piece "The Good Plow" says: "The Good Plow" is a hymn sung in autumn when offering sacrifices to the gods of the soil and grain.

With a sharp plowshare, we begin to till the southern fields, sowing the hundred grains, the seeds full of life and vigor.

Someone comes to see you, carrying square baskets and round hampers; the food is yellow millet, and the rain hat is woven.

The hoe is sharp, used to weed out the smartweed and the knotweed.

The smartweed and knotweed rot away, and the millet and sorghum grow luxuriant. When harvesting, there is a rustling sound; the piles are high and dense,

The grain stacks are as tall as city walls, arranged like the teeth of a comb. Then we open the hundred granaries.

The hundred granaries are filled, and the women and children are at peace. We slaughter that great ox, with its curved horns,

To offer sacrifices and continue the tradition, following the customs of the ancients.

This chapter of "The Good Plow" has twenty-three lines in total.