Villager's Song I​
- Poetry of Liu Zongyuan

This series of poems was likely composed during Liu Zongyuan's exile in Yongzhou or Liuzhou. Following the failure of the Yongzhen Reforms, the poet—relegated to a minor official position in the remote south—became intimately acquainted with peasants, laborers, and the underprivileged. "Three Poems on Farming Households" emerges from his profound observations of rural life. The first poem traces a farmer's grueling daily cycle: predawn departure, sunset return, and the cruel reality of toil without harvest—exposing the intergenerational exploitation of peasants.