an alternate interpretation just off the cuff, idk if it would make any more sense lmao... this IS rather oblique.
note: a mu 畝 according to wikipedia is 1/15th of a hectare, which makes it about 1.5 acres. i'll just keep mu as the unit of measure since there's no equivalent xD 10 acres would be like roughly 10 football fields. and it's a BIG plantation bc even outside of that 10 mu, there is YET MORE mulberry trees.
Within that ten mu, the mulberry leaf pickers do so idly idly (hey ~). "With you, I shall return (hey ~)." Outside of the ten mu, the mulberry leaf pickers do so leisurely, leisurely (hey ~). "With you, I shall go forth (hey)."
there's two ways to see it - maybe more still because all the keywords here have so many possibilities!
within this big mulberry plantation, the ladies (mulberry leaf pickers were usually ladies) work at a comfortable, unhurried pace. they're plucking the food for the silkworms, so they have to pick the nice leaves. it's like a little bubble of its own here, separated from the world outside. afterwards, they return home with their fellow workers. OR they return home with their husbands xD
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Re: 111. 十畝之閒 - Shi Mu Zhi Jian
Date: 2021-02-14 12:12 pm (UTC)note: a mu 畝 according to wikipedia is 1/15th of a hectare, which makes it about 1.5 acres. i'll just keep mu as the unit of measure since there's no equivalent xD 10 acres would be like roughly 10 football fields. and it's a BIG plantation bc even outside of that 10 mu, there is YET MORE mulberry trees.
Within that ten mu, the mulberry leaf pickers do so idly idly (hey ~).
"With you, I shall return (hey ~)."
Outside of the ten mu, the mulberry leaf pickers do so leisurely, leisurely (hey ~).
"With you, I shall go forth (hey)."
there's two ways to see it - maybe more still because all the keywords here have so many possibilities!
within this big mulberry plantation, the ladies (mulberry leaf pickers were usually ladies) work at a comfortable, unhurried pace. they're plucking the food for the silkworms, so they have to pick the nice leaves. it's like a little bubble of its own here, separated from the world outside. afterwards, they return home with their fellow workers. OR they return home with their husbands xD