在初夏（4）

In the early summer

Do you plan to find a part time job in the summer?

你暑假打算打工吗？

Season of Grain in Ear, river Chinese Campagna a light green.

芒种时节, 江汉平原一片葱绿。

He put his children to work on his farm during the summer vacation.

他让他的孩子在暑假里去自家的农场劳动。

In the early each summer he turned farmhand,

每年初夏，他也兼做点农活，

transplanting rice for other people.

芒种的时节，便帮人家插秧，

As he had learned to transplant the seedlings in wonderfully straight rows,

由于他已经学会了把秧苗连成一排排地移植，

the peasants always asked him to help them.

农民们总是要求他帮助他们。

Grain in Ear, is a Mount crops such as wheat mature meaning.

芒种, 是麦类等有芒作物成熟的意思。