国风·豳风·七月之四

　九月筑场圃，十月纳禾稼。黍稷重穋，禾麻菽麦。嗟我农夫，我稼既同，上入执宫功。昼尔于茅，宵尔索綯。亟其乘屋，其始播百谷。
　二之日凿冰冲冲，三之日纳于凌阴。四之日其蚤，献羔祭韭。九月肃霜，十月涤场。朋酒斯飨，曰杀羔羊。跻彼公堂，称彼兕觥，万寿无疆。

Life of Peasants 4

In ninth moon we repair the threshing-floor;
In tenth we bring in harvest clean;
The millet sown early and late are put in store,
And wheat and hemp,paddy and bean.
There is no rest for husbandmen:
Once harvesting is done, alas!
We're sent to work in lord's house then.
By day for thatch we gather reed and grass;

At night we twist them into ropes;
Then hurry to mend the roofs again,
For we should not abandon the hopes
Of sowing in time our fields with grain.
In the twelfth moon we hew out ice;
In the first moon we store it deep.
In the second we offer early sacrifice
Of garlic, lamb and sheep.
In ninth moon frosty is the weather;
In tenth we sweep and clear the threshing-floor.
We drink two bottles of wine together
And kill a lamb before the door.
Then we go up To the hall where
We raise our buffalo-horn cup
And wish our lord to live fore’er.